Buddha, Gautama

Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 80 books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Amir Khusrau, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Rabi'a, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mu'in and many others and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies and a dozen screenplays.