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Four More Great Classic Sufi Master Poets: Selected Poems: Sadi, 'Iraqi, Yunus Emre, Shabistari
ISBN: 9781492910619 / Angielski / Miękka / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FOUR MORE GREAT CLASSIC SUFI MASTER POETS Sadi, 'Iraqi, Yunus Emre, Shabistari. SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The great Sufi Perfect Master Poets of the Classic Age (12th-14th century) were straightforward and inspiring in the poetic forms of the ghazal, ruba'i, qasida and the masnavi in expressing their love for the Divine Beloved and their contempt for this world and its illusions and explaining the spiritual path. Here are hundreds of beautiful poems by them in the correct form and meaning and biographies about them. Sadi of Shiraz (1210-1291) is considered one of...
FOUR MORE GREAT CLASSIC SUFI MASTER POETS Sadi, 'Iraqi, Yunus Emre, Shabistari. SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The great Sufi Pe...
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Rabi'a Basri: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781493585670 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. RABI'A BASRI: SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith RABI'A BASRI (717-801). Throughout her life, her Love of God, poverty and self-denial did not waver. She did not possess much other than a broken jug, a rush mat and a brick, which she used as a pillow. She spent nights in prayer and contemplation, chiding herself if she slept because it took her away from her active Love of God. As her fame grew she had many disciples. More interesting than her asceticism is the actual concept of Divine Love that Rabi'a introduced. She was the first to introduce the idea that God should be...
RABI'A BASRI: SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith RABI'A BASRI (717-801). Throughout her life, her Love of God, poverty and self-deni...
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Hatef of Isfahan and his famous Tarji-band
ISBN: 9781493736669 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HATEF OF ISFAHAN AND HIS FAMOUS TARJI-BAND Translation & Introduction Paul Smith "Hatef won fame by his unsurpassed Tarji-band, a work that sings of a mystical vision, albeit with all the conventional erotic and wine-house accessories, but in an uncommonly straightforward style, in a lucidly arranged metaphorical language intensified to the highest degree of perception, free of the euphuisms and obscurities of the foregoing period. Here we have one of the best examples of Persian poetry in the 12th/18th century and one that at the same time stands on an incomparably higher level than anything...
HATEF OF ISFAHAN AND HIS FAMOUS TARJI-BAND Translation & Introduction Paul Smith "Hatef won fame by his unsurpassed Tarji-band, a work that sings of a...
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Cat & Mouse: Obeyd Zakani
ISBN: 9781499364491 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CAT & MOUSE: OBEYD ZAKANI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Obeyd Zakani's Cat & Mouse is a satirical, epic fable in the poetic form of the qasida that was influential at the time it was composed (14th C.) and has remained so for the past 600 years. It is more than just a story for children (that some say brought about the cartoon of Tom & Jerry)... it is a story of the stupidity of the false power of those in power and a warning to all that such blind ambition always leads to destruction at the hands of one even more powerful. Here is a beautiful, poetic translation keeping to the...
CAT & MOUSE: OBEYD ZAKANI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Obeyd Zakani's Cat & Mouse is a satirical, epic fable in the poetic form of the qasida...
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Khayyam: Life & Poems
ISBN: 9781499621082 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. KHAYYAM: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Omar Khayyam who died in 1132 is more famous in Iran as an astronomer and mathematician... the Sufi philosophy in only some his ruba'is meant his poems were never really popular in his homeland, but after the work of FitzGerald the west fell in love with him. Included in the Introduction: The Life and Times & Poems of Omar Khayyam by R.A. Nicholson and the Form and Function & History of the ruba'i and a chapter on Sufis & Dervishes, Their Art & Use of Poetry. Selected bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well...
KHAYYAM: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Omar Khayyam who died in 1132 is more famous in Iran as an astronomer and mathematician...
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Nesimi: Life & Poems
ISBN: 9781499644340 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NESIMI: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Nesimi (1369-1417) is one of the greatest Sufi poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and one of the most prominent early masters in Turkish/Azerbaijani literary history. For Nesimi at the centre of Creation there was God, who bestowed His Light on man. Through sacrifice and self-perfection, man can become one with Him. As a direct result of his beliefs he was skinned alive. His tomb in Aleppo remains an important place of pilgrimage to this day. His work consists of two collections of poems, one in Persian and the most...
NESIMI: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Nesimi (1369-1417) is one of the greatest Sufi poets of the late 14th and early 15th centur...
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Nizami: Life & Poems
ISBN: 9781499645286 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NIZAMI: LIFE & POEMS 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 the Mysteries, Layla and Majnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven Portraits and his two books on Alexander. He also composed a Divan of approximately 20, ooo couplets mostly in ghazals and ruba'is... tragically only 200 couplets survive. His influence on Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami and all others that followed was profound. Here is a selection of his ghazals and masnavis. Introduction... the life and Times and Poems of...
NIZAMI: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Nizami (d. 1208) is a true Sufi Master Poet who is most famous for his six books in masnavi...
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Obeyd Zakani: Life & Poems
ISBN: 9781499655810 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OBEYD ZAKANI: LIFE & POEMS Translation and Introduction Paul Smith Obeyd Zakani (14th C.) is an important a figure in Persian and Sufi literature and poetry. His satire, social commentary, mystical ghazals, prose, ruba'is and his famous epic qasida 'Mouse & Cat' are popular today and are more relevant than ever. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest satirists and social-commentators whose life and Sufi poems had a great influence on his student and friend Hafiz and many others. Introduction on his Life, Times & poems and on Sufi Poetry & the forms he used... ghazals, tarji-band,...
OBEYD ZAKANI: LIFE & POEMS Translation and Introduction Paul Smith Obeyd Zakani (14th C.) is an important a figure in Persian and Sufi literature and ...
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Saadi: The Divan
ISBN: 9781500252427 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SAADI THE DIVAN Revised Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Saadi 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. Saadi 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 his beloved birth-place... The Rose Garden (Gulistan) and...
SAADI THE DIVAN Revised Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Saadi of Shiraz (1210-1291), a contemporary of Rumi who influenced him, was another Perf...
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The Nizami Book: The Treasury of Mysteries and Layla and Majnun
ISBN: 9781500528782 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE NIZAMI BOOK The Treasury of Mysteries and Layla and Majnun 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 20, ooo couplets mostly in ghazals and ruba'is... tragically only 200 couplets survive. His influence on Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami and all others that followed was profound. Here are two of his greatest mystical masnavi epic poems The Treasury of Mysteries, Layla and...
THE NIZAMI BOOK The Treasury of Mysteries and Layla and Majnun Nizami (d. 1208) is a true Sufi Master Poet who is most famous for his six books in mas...
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The Book of Khaqani
ISBN: 9781502460387 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF KHAQANI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Born in Shirwan in 1122 he died in Tabriz in 1199. He was a great poet and a master of the qasida and one of the first of the ghazal. He was born into the family of a carpenter in Melgem, near Shamakhy. He lost his father and was brought up by an uncle, a doctor and astronomer at court of the Shirwanshah, who acted 'as his nurse and tutor'. His mother was a Christian and Jesus features in many of his poems. After he was invited to court he assumed the pen-name Khaqani ('regal'). A court poet's life bored him and he fled to Iraq...
THE BOOK OF KHAQANI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Born in Shirwan in 1122 he died in Tabriz in 1199. He was a great poet and a master of the q...
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The Book of Jami
ISBN: 9781502540645 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF JAMI Translation, Introduction Paul Smith Jami (1414-1493), is still considered the last great poet of the Classical Period (10th-15th C.) of Persian Poetry is mostly known for his masterpiece seven masnavi epics... including his masterpieces Joseph and Zulaikh... also Layla and Majnun, Chain of Gold and Book of the Wisdom of Alexander. He also composed three Divans consisting of ghazals rubai's and other profound, mystical poems. Here is the largest number of his ghazals and ruba'is translated into English and a good selection from most of his masnavis. Included in the...
THE BOOK OF JAMI Translation, Introduction Paul Smith Jami (1414-1493), is still considered the last great poet of the Classical Period (10th-15th C.)...
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The Book of Turkish Poetry: Anthology of Sufi, Dervish, Divan, Court & Folk Poetry from the 12th ? 20th Century
ISBN: 9781502861825 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF TURKISH POETRY Anthology of Sufi, Dervish, Divan, Court & Folk Poetry from the 12th - 20th Century Translations, Introductions, Paul Smith Introduction includes chapters on...The Turkish Language, Turkish Poetry, The Gazel in Turkish Poetry, The Roba'i in Turkish Poetry, The Mesnevi in Turkish Poetry, The Qasida in Turkish Poetry and a Glossary. Included with each selection of a particular poet is a brief biography plus a list of further reading. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these beautiful, often mystical poems. THE POETS: Ahmed...
THE BOOK OF TURKISH POETRY Anthology of Sufi, Dervish, Divan, Court & Folk Poetry from the 12th - 20th Century Translations, Introductions, Paul Smith...
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The Book of Majnun
ISBN: 9781503081314 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF MAJNUN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Majnun was a real person Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun='madman) was a youth, a Bedouin poet in the seventh century of the Bani Amir tribe in the Najd desert in Arabia. He fell in love with Layla from the same tribe whom he was denied. (It is said that Shakespeare was inspired by their tale for Romeo & Juliet from their tragic love story). Most of his recorded poetry was composed before his descent into love-madness (mast) then through a Perfect Master... his spiritual unification with his beloved. Nizami's famous telling of their tale...
THE BOOK OF MAJNUN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Majnun was a real person Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun='madman) was a youth, a Bedouin poet i...
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The Book of Abu Nuwas
ISBN: 9781507510933 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF ABU NUWAS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Abu Nuwas (757-814) was the most famous and infamous poet who composed in Arabic of the Abbasid era. His style was extravagant and his compositions reflected the licentious manners of the upper classes of his day. His father was Arab and his mother was Persian. As a youth he was sold into slavery; a wealthy benefactor later set him free. By the time he reached manhood he had settled in Baghdad and was composing poetry. It was at this time, because of his long hair, he acquired the name Abu Nuwas (Father of Ringlets). Gradually he...
THE BOOK OF ABU NUWAS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Abu Nuwas (757-814) was the most famous and infamous poet who composed in Arabic of the Ab...
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The Book of Anvari
ISBN: 9781507557747 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF ANVARI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Ahad-ud-din Anvari Abeverdi (1126-1189) was a court poet of the Seljuk sultans. Jami composed a ruba'i where he names him, along with Firdausi and Sadi as one of the 'three apostles' of Persian poetry. He was also a celebrated astronomer, mathematician and scientist who admitted he gave them up for the more lucrative occupation of ... a court poet, that he later rejected twenty years before his death for a life of seclusion and contemplation, embracing Sufism. He is renowned for his delightful wittiness that can be found in many of his...
THE BOOK OF ANVARI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Ahad-ud-din Anvari Abeverdi (1126-1189) was a court poet of the Seljuk sultans. Jami composed...
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The Book of al-Ma'arri
ISBN: 9781507560563 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF AL-MA'ARRI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith CONTENTS: The Life and Works of al-Ma'arri, The Ruba'i & Qit'a, Ghazal & Qasida: Form, Use, History. Abu'l- 'Ala al-Ma'arri was born in Ma'arra, south of Aleppo in Syria in 973 A.D. He achieved fame as one of greatest of Arab poets. Al-Ma'arri was stricken with smallpox when four and became blind. His early poems in ruba'i form gained great popularity as did his other poems. As he grew older, he was able to travel to Aleppo, Antioch and other Syrian cities. Al-Ma'arri spent 18 months at Baghdad, then the centre of learning and...
THE BOOK OF AL-MA'ARRI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith CONTENTS: The Life and Works of al-Ma'arri, The Ruba'i & Qit'a, Ghazal & Qasida: Form, Us...
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The Book of Rudaki
ISBN: 9781507729236 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF RUDAKI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Abu 'Abd Allah Ja'far ibn Muhammad Rudaki (858-941) the 'father of Persian Poetry' and possibly the ruba'i, was born in the village of Rudak near Samarkand. First a wandering 'dervish' poet/minstrel he later served at the court of the Samanids of Bokhara. Nasr ibn Ahmad summoned him to his court and he prospered there amassing great wealth. He had 200 slaves in his retinue... and 400 camels carried his belongings when he travelled. In 937 he fell out of favour at court (and was blinded at this time as some commentators suggest) after...
THE BOOK OF RUDAKI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Abu 'Abd Allah Ja'far ibn Muhammad Rudaki (858-941) the 'father of Persian Poetry' and possib...
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The Book of Ibn Yamin
ISBN: 9781507878682 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF IBN YAMIN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Amir Fakhr al-Din Mahmud, or Ibn Yamin (1286-1367), was born in Turkistan. His father was a poet who taught him the craft and left his son wealthy and the role of the court-poet in Khurasan. Ibn Yamin was taken captive when war broke out in 1342 and his complete Divan of poems was destroyed. He was a master of the form of the qit'a but he also wrote ruba'is and ghazals... often with a Sufi point of view. All are here represented. He is now as he was then, famous for his down-to-earth commonsense. Hafiz was influenced by his poems. He...
THE BOOK OF IBN YAMIN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Amir Fakhr al-Din Mahmud, or Ibn Yamin (1286-1367), was born in Turkistan. His father was ...
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The Book of Sadi: (Saadi or Sa'di)
ISBN: 9781508697459 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF SADI (Saadi or Sa'di) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Sadi (Saadi or Sa'di) 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 his beloved birth-place... The...
THE BOOK OF SADI (Saadi or Sa'di) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Sadi (Saadi or Sa'di) of Shiraz (1210-1291), a contemporary of Rumi who influe...
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