YUNUS EMRE: THE TURKISH DERVISH SELECTED POEMS Translation, Introduction Paul Smith Yunus Emre (d. 132o) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a great influence on Turkish literature from his own time until today. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master, Beloved, Friend and human destiny and weakness. Little is known of his life other than he became a Sufi dervish Perfect Master (Qutub). A contemporary of Rumi, it is told the two great souls met: Rumi asked Yunus what he thought of his huge work, the Mesnevi. Yunus...

MANSUR HALLAJ: SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith The Perfect Master, poet & martyr, Husayn Mansur al-Hallaj (died 919), was born in Shiraz and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (Anal Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and in¬famous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic have been translated before from his Divan into English, and in the poetic form in which they were composed. The Introduction contains: The Life, Times and Works of Mansur Hallaj, The Perfect...

RUBA'IYAT OF ABU SA'ID Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Abu Sa'id ibn Abi 'l-Khair (968-1049) was a Perfect Master and a poet who lived in Nishapur and composed only ruba'is, over 400 of them. He was a founder of Sufi poetry and a major influence on the ruba'i and most poets that followed, especially Sana'i, Nizami, 'Attar, Rumi and Hafiz. Here are 188 of his poems translated into the correct form. Included in the Introduction are the life of Abu Sa'id and a history of the ruba'i and examples by its greatest exponents. Selected Bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure is kept as well...

TAO TE CHING Lao Tzu Modern English Version by Paul Smith from the Translation from the Chinese by Paul Carus The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the Perfect Master Lao Tzu, a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court by whose name the text is known in China. The text is fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism and strongly influenced other schools such as Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. Many Chinese...

THE BOOK OF ABU SA'ID Ruba'iyat... Life & Times & Teachings Translation by Paul Smith Introduction by Paul Smith & R.A. Nicholson Abu Sa'id ibn Abi 'l-Khair (968-1049) was a Perfect Master and a poet who lived in Nishapur and elsewhere and composed only ruba'is, over 400 of them. He was one of the founders of Sufi poetry and a major influence on the ruba'i and most poets that followed, especially Sana'i, Nizami, 'Attar, Rumi and Hafiz. Here are 188 of his poems translated into the correct form. Included in the Introduction are the Life & Times & Teachings of Abu Sa'id and a history of the...

THE BOOK OF SANA'I Translation and Introduction by Paul Smith One of the most prolific and influential Sufi Master Poets of all time Hakim Sana'i (d.1131) composed many ghazals, masnavis, qasidas, qita's and over 400 ruba'is that influenced all the ruba'i writers that followed him. His long masnavi (rhyming couplets) mystical work The Enclosed Garden of the Truth is said to have had a profound influence on Rumi's composing of his Masnavi and in Sadi's composing his Bustan ('The Orchard'). Included in the Introduction are the Life and Times and Poetry of Sana'i and a history of the various...

'I AM THE TRUTH' (ANAL HAQ)... Diwan of Mansur al-Hallaj Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Perfect Master, poet & martyr, Husayn Mansur al-Hallaj (died 919), was born near Shiraz and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (Anal Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic have been translated before from his Divan into English, and in the poetic form in which they were composed. Now here they are Included is The Tawasin. 'Written in...

DIVAN OF ABU SA'ID Translation by Paul Smith Introduction by Paul Smith & R.A. Nicholson Abu Sa'id ibn Abi 'l-Khair (968-1049) was a Perfect Master and a poet who lived in Nishapur and elsewhere and composed only ruba'is, over 400 of them. He was one of the founders of Sufi poetry and a major influence on the ruba'i and most poets that followed, especially Sana'i, Nizami, 'Attar, Rumi and Hafiz. Here are 188 of his poems translated into the correct form. Included in the Introduction are the Life & Times & Teachings of Abu Sa'id and a history of the ruba'i and examples by its greatest...

A short, whimsical and light-hearted narrative of the life of a Yorkshireman who migrated to Australia with his parents in the mid nineteen sixties. His early years growing up in post war England. His subsequent journey to the far away 'colony'. How he found true friendship, love and happiness. A humorous and at times, sad account of the forces that shaped and changed his world. All this and more, including some not so subtle references to the music from an era that will never be forgotten.

HAKIM SANA'I Pioneer of the Persian Sufi Ghazal SELECTED POEMS Translation and Introduction by Paul Smith One of the most prolific and influential Sufi Master Poets of all time Hakim Sana'i (d.1131) composed many ghazals (over 60 translated here), masnavis, qasidas, qita's and over 400 ruba'is that influenced all the ruba'i writers that followed him. His long masnavi (rhyming couplets) mystical work The Enclosed Garden of the Truth is said to have had a profound influence on Rumi's composing of his Masnavi and in Sadi's composing his Bustan ('The Orchard'). Included in the Introduction are...