The work we are translating, entitled Damm al-hawâ, treats of a profane love as it is perceived by the anbalite preacher Abû l-Farağ b. al-Ğawzî (d. 597/1200). It is important to mention that Ibn al-Ğawzî is considered up to now as one of the greatest reference-leaders of certain “islamist” movements. Being very aware of the stakes represented by love-passion (‛išq) for the Moslem and of all that it might entail, bearing in mind its excessive and obsessive character, such us disorder and depravity, Ibn al-Ğawzî strives to fight against this plague and will direct all his efforts towards both a rationalization of passion and a glorification of the virtue, resorting to the legal texts of the šarî‛a and following into the footsteps of the pious ancestors. What he particularly condemns, is this new form of ‛išq inspired by the slave-singers (qiyân) wich has a tendancy to expand with the islamic city. These love practices will require new behaviour-rules which would delineate their usage leading us to think that the legal texts of arîa were not deep enough to slove the issues of the time.