GHAZALS (Sufi Mystical Love Poems) of NIZAMI & 'ATTAR

Download or read book GHAZALS (Sufi Mystical Love Poems) of NIZAMI & 'ATTAR written by Translation & Introduction Paul Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GHAZALS (Sufi Mystical Love Poems) of NIZAMI & 'ATTAR Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. NIZAMI (d. 1208) is a true Sufi Master Poet who is most famous for his six books in masnavi form: The Treasury of Mysteries, Layla and Majnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven Portraits and his two books on Alexander. He also composed a Divan of approximately 22,000 couplets mostly in ghazals, tragically only 205 ghazals remain and all are here translated. The influence of his ghazals on those of 'Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami and all others that followed was profound. Here is also a good selection from his other masterpiece masnavis, ruba'is and a qasida in the long Introduction on the life and Times .'ATTAR 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, his most famous being The Book of God and The Conference of the Birds. He also composed many powerful mystical /love poems in the ghazal form that influenced Sadi and Hafiz and all who came later. 'Attar's powerful, honest and controversial ghazals remain as fresh today as they always were. With 'Attar the image of the 'rend'... the drunken debauchee, the thief of love, the carefree outsider, the honest scallywag, appears as the poet, the lover... the voice of the ghazal. Here is by far the largest translation of his ghazals in English in the correct-rhyme structure with the beauty and meaning and all by his translator inspired by their first couplets. Introduction: Life & Times and Poetry of each poet and essay on the Ghazal. Selected Bibliographies, Glossary. Large Print (14pt) & Large Format Paperback (7" x 10"). 420 pages. Comments on Paul Smith's Translation of 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 many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. 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, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa NEW HUMANITY BOOKS