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Visions of Love: Sufi Poetry of the Pakistan-Afghan Border

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This book is a celebration of the poetry which forms the core of the deeply spiritual and expressive oral culture of the Pushtuns. The poetry in this volume is a selection of my own favourites from the work of their most popular poet - Abdul Rahman Baba. I have attempted to free the verse from the constraints of rhyme and meter to communicate its essence, and owe thanks to Momin Khan for his collaboration on the earlier translation from which this interpretation is derived.

Rahman Baba was born in 1650, and lived near Peshawar towards the end of the Mughal era. He wrote at a time when the mystical face of Islam, known as Sufism, was dominant in local culture. Like other Sufi poetry, a delicious ambiguity exists in the expression of love for the Divine and the human beloved. Rahman's vision of love - with its soaring values of equality and tolerance – is a refreshing antidote to the obsession with rank, power and sectarianism that has so come to plague our world.

Language: English

Pages: 54

Format: Kindle Edition

Visions of Love: Sufi Poetry of the Pakistan-Afghan Border

0/5 ( ratings)

This book is a celebration of the poetry which forms the core of the deeply spiritual and expressive oral culture of the Pushtuns. The poetry in this volume is a selection of my own favourites from the work of their most popular poet - Abdul Rahman Baba. I have attempted to free the verse from the constraints of rhyme and meter to communicate its essence, and owe thanks to Momin Khan for his collaboration on the earlier translation from which this interpretation is derived.

Rahman Baba was born in 1650, and lived near Peshawar towards the end of the Mughal era. He wrote at a time when the mystical face of Islam, known as Sufism, was dominant in local culture. Like other Sufi poetry, a delicious ambiguity exists in the expression of love for the Divine and the human beloved. Rahman's vision of love - with its soaring values of equality and tolerance – is a refreshing antidote to the obsession with rank, power and sectarianism that has so come to plague our world.

Language: English

Pages: 54

Format: Kindle Edition

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