It's almost Christmas and all over town people have discovered that some of their favorite things have gone missing. Is it the new children in town? Someone nobody knows? The search is on in this delightful tale about people and their friends in the natural world. And the true meaning of Christmas. "A great new story that will likely be a classic...entertaining for children and the parents who read to them." -Parenting Magazine. "It is rare for a new book to look and act like a classic, but A Cape Cod Crows Christmas seems to be just that. A joyful story that seems destined to be a film."...

This volume, comprised of essays by both men and women, is a controversial sally in the current debate over the future of feminist theory. Each essay attempts to assess the benefits or damage of male participation in feminism; several of the contributions stand in direct dialogue with others.

DIVAN OF HAFIZ DIVAN OF HAFIZ Revised Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Hafiz was born in Shiraz, Persia (Iran) in 1320 and died there in 1392. He is considered by many of the world's great poets, writers and mystics to have been the greatest poet who ever lived. The book that he gave to the world, his Divan has been loved by millions of people of the East and West for the past 700 years and is used as an oracle even today. Hafiz was not only a unique and great poet; he was also a Perfect Master, a God-Realized soul whose wisdom and insights into the everyday and the mystical path are...

NIZAMI: LAYLA AND MAJNUN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith It is impossible to underestimate the effect of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun' on the world over the past 800 years. Many poets throughout this period have copied or been influenced by his story of the young lovers. Many Master-Poets besides Ibn 'Arabi, 'Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami have quoted from him or like him have used the story of the desperate lovers to illustrate how human love can be transformed into divine love through separation and longing. It is said that no one has painted a more perfect picture of women in...

DIVAN OF SADI His Mystical Love-Poetry. Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Published by New Humanity Books/Book Heaven Sadi of Shiraz (1210-1291), a contemporary of Rumi who influenced him, was another Perfect Master Poet who expressed himself in the ruba'i form as well as hundreds of ghazals in his beautiful Divan that often also contained images from dervish dancing. Sadi was a great traveller who spent forty years on the road throughout the Middle-East, North Africa and India and many of the incidents he experienced he wrote down in his two most famous works when he finally returned to...

HAFIZ'S FRIEND JAHAN KHATUN The Persian Princess Dervish Poet A Selection from her Divan Translation & Introduction Paul Smith & Rezvaneh Pashai. Published by New Humanity Books/Book Heaven Daughter of the king of one of Shiraz's most turbulent times (14th century) Masud Shah; pupil and lifelong friend of the world's greatest mystical, lyric poet, Hafiz of Shiraz; the object of crazed desire by (among others) Iran's greatest satirist, the obscene, outrageous, visionary poet Obeyd Zakani; lover, then wife of womanizer Amin al-Din a minister of one of Persia's most loved, debauched and tragic...

ANTHOLOGY OF CLASSICAL ARABIC POETRY (From Pre-Islamic Times to Al-Shushtari) Translations, Introduction and Notes by Paul Smith CONTENTS: Classical Arabic Poetry... page 7, The Qasida... 10, The Qit'a... 11, The Ghazal... 12, The Ruba'i... 16, Selected Bibliography... 17: THE POETS (In Order of Appearance) Imra' ul-Qays 17, Zuhair 29, Harith 39, Antara 46, Tarafa 58, Amru 71, Al-A'sha 80, Suhaym 82, Labid 84, Ka'b 96, Khansa 100, Hazrat Ali 102, Ali Ibn Husain 111, Omar Ibn Abi Rabi'a 106, Majnun (Qays ibn al-Mulawwah) 109, Rab'ia of Basra 116, Bashshar 123, Abu Nuwas 126, Abu Tammam 151,...

'ATTAR: SELECTED POETRY Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Farid ad-din '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 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 and in the ruba'i form. Here for the first time is a fine selection of his poems in all three forms in the correct-rhyme structure with the beauty and meaning of his...

BABA FARID: SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith The father of Punjabi poetry Baba Farid (1173-1266) was born in the Punjab. Khwaja Bakhtiar Kaki was Baba Farid's Spiritual Master. Kaki met Mu'in ud-din Chishti at Baghdad and became his disciple. The king at Delhi, Balban, welcomed Farid in Delhi. His daughter married Farid. Baba Farid, the Sufi Master poet laureate from Punjab is famous for his wise and spiritual couplets (slokas)... 112 of them are in the bible of the Sikhs (whom he influenced) the Guru Granth, and 128 are translated here with the correct rhyme-structure...

THE POETS OF SHIRAZ Sufi, Dervish, Court & Satirical Poets from the 9th to the 20th Centuries of the fabled city of Shiraz Translations & Introduction & Notes by Paul Smith CONTENTS: Shiraz in History. The Various Forms in Classical Persian Poetry, Sufism in Persian Poetry, A Glossary of Sufi & Dervish Poetry. THE POETS OF SHIRAZ... Mansur al-Hallaj, Baba Kuhi, Ruzbihan, Hamgar, Sadi, Nasir, Khaju, Obeyd Zakani, Emad, Shahin, Hafiz, Ruh Attar, Haydar, Yazdi, Azad, Junaid, Jalal, Jahan Khatun, Shah Shuja, Bushaq, Shah Da'i, Ahli, Figani, Urfi, Visal, Qa'ani, Shurida, Munis 'Ali Shah, Lotfali...