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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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'Attar of Nishapour: SELECTED POEMS: (Large Type & Large Format Edition)

'Attar of Nishapour: SELECTED POEMS: (Large Type & Large Format Edition)

'Attar
Smith, Paul

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1090718233
ISBN13: 9781090718235
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2019
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.61
Height: 0.77 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
'ATTAR OF NISHAPOUR: SELECTED POEMS (Large Type & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Farid al-din 'Attar of Nishapour is seen with Sana'i and Rumi (who he met and influenced) as one of the three most important Sufi Poet-Masters of the 13th century. He composed over forty books mainly in the epic masnavi form of rhyming couplets, his most famous being The Book of God and The Conference of the Birds. He also composed many powerful mystical poems in the ghazal form that influenced Sa'di and Hafiz and all who came later and he was a master in the ruba'i form and couplets in his Pand-Nama or 'Book of Wisdom' are short shots of Wisdom. Here for the first time is a fine selection of his poems in the correct-rhyme structure with the beauty and meaning of his immortal poems. Introduction: Life & Times and Poetry and an essay on Sufi Poetry. Selected Bibliography, Glossary. Large Type 16pt. Large Format Paperback 8 x 10 368 pages. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith. Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Mansur Hallaj, Yunus Emre, Mu'in, Ibn Farid, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Abu Said, Ghalib, Nazir, Iqbal, and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, children's books, biographies and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa

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