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All the Surviving Ghazals of Nizami
ALL THE SURVIVING GHAZALS OF NIZAMI 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 Mysteries, Layla andMajnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven Portraits and his two books on Alexander. He also composed a Divan of approximately 22,000 couplets mostly in ghazals and ruba'is... tragically only 115 ghazals and 69 ruba'is and a handful of qasidas & qit'as survive. The influence of his ghazals on those of 'Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami and all others that followed was profound. Here are many of his remaining ghazals translated into English for the first time in the correct form and a good selection from his other masterpiece masnavis, ruba'is and a qasida in the long Introduction on the life and Times and Poetry of Nizami and a Selected Bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept and the power and meaning of these beautiful, usually mystical poems. Azerbaijan has named 2021 the Year of Nizami Ganjavi. 224 pages. 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 (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from 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 and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa NEW HUMANITY BOOKS
Book Details
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2025
- Pages: 226
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.52in - 0.68lb
- EAN: 9798280259140
- Categories: • Middle Eastern