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Four More Great Classic Sufi Master Poets: Selected Poems

Four More Great Classic Sufi Master Poets: Selected Poems

Shabistari
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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 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 is considered one of the greatest Sufi poets. The Rose Garden and The Bustan have been a major influence for 700 years. His Divan of ghazals and ruba’is is still much loved. ‘Iraqi was a Perfect Master and author of a Divan of spiritual ghazals and ruba’is and other poems. Yunus Emre is one of the most important Turkish poets. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master. Shabistari . His influential masterpiece 1000 couplet masnavi Gulshan i-Raz 0r ‘The Rose Garden of Mysteries’ was composed in 1317 in answer to fifteen questions on the doctrines of the Sufis. Introduction: Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Use of Poetry & the various poetic forms they used. Pages 562.

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi Tehran.
“Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky .

Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 130 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, and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books, screenplays.
Language
English
Pages
642
Format
Kindle Edition

Four More Great Classic Sufi Master Poets: Selected Poems

Shabistari
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 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 is considered one of the greatest Sufi poets. The Rose Garden and The Bustan have been a major influence for 700 years. His Divan of ghazals and ruba’is is still much loved. ‘Iraqi was a Perfect Master and author of a Divan of spiritual ghazals and ruba’is and other poems. Yunus Emre is one of the most important Turkish poets. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master. Shabistari . His influential masterpiece 1000 couplet masnavi Gulshan i-Raz 0r ‘The Rose Garden of Mysteries’ was composed in 1317 in answer to fifteen questions on the doctrines of the Sufis. Introduction: Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Use of Poetry & the various poetic forms they used. Pages 562.

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi Tehran.
“Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky .

Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 130 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, and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books, screenplays.
Language
English
Pages
642
Format
Kindle Edition

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