MAHSATI THE GREAT, OUTRAGEOUS, FEMALE, SUFI POET Selected Poems

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MAHSATI THE GREAT, OUTRAGEOUS, FEMALE, SUFI POET Selected Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith We know little of Mahsati Ganjavi’s life except that she lived in Ganjeh when Sultan Sanjar reigned and as she was a poet at his court she would have known Anvari. She was a court, dervish and ribald poet. She knew Nizami and Omar Khayyam… and composed in the ruba’i form and must be considered not only a master of that form but also to have helped to revolutionize it. She also composed ghazals but few have come down to us today . She was an influence on perhaps Iran’s greatest female poet Jahan Khatun of Shiraz and Iran’s greatest satirist Obeyd Zakani. She was famous and also infamous for her truly liberated behaviour. Included in the Introduction are her life, times and a history of the ruba’i and examples by its greatest exponents. Selected Bibliography. Appendixes. This is by far the largest collection of her poems translated into English with 380 of the 400 poems that have survived translated. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these immortal, courageous four-line poems. Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of 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, Seemab, Jigar, Lalla Ded, Ghalib, Iqbal, Hali and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa