The Book of Baba Tahir Oryan

The Book of Baba Tahir Oryan PDF Author: Baba Oryan
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507575062
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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THE BOOK OF BABA TAHIR ORYAN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Baba Tahir, or Oryan ('The Naked') of Hamadan... approx. 990-1065 A.D., was a great God-intoxicated, or God-mad soul (mast) and possibly a Qutub (Perfect Master) who composed about 120 known ruba'i in a simpler metre than the usual 'hazaj' metre. His simple, mystical poems that he would sing while wandering naked throughout the land had a profound influence on Sufis and dervishes and other ruba'i composers, especially Abu Sa'id, Ibn Sina and Omar Khayyam. Included in the Introduction... The Life, Times & Poetry of Baba Tahir Oryan, a History of the ruba'i and examples by its greatest exponents, Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Poetry. Selected Bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these immortal four-line poems. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 187 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. If he comes to Iran I will kiss the fingertips that wrote such a masterpiece inspired by the Creator of all." 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. "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). 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, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Amir Khusrau, Bulleh Shah, Iqbal, Ghalib, Dara Shikoh, Makhfi, Nazir Akbarbadi and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com

The Book of Baba Tahir Oryan

The Book of Baba Tahir Oryan PDF Author: Baba Oryan
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507575062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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THE BOOK OF BABA TAHIR ORYAN Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Baba Tahir, or Oryan ('The Naked') of Hamadan... approx. 990-1065 A.D., was a great God-intoxicated, or God-mad soul (mast) and possibly a Qutub (Perfect Master) who composed about 120 known ruba'i in a simpler metre than the usual 'hazaj' metre. His simple, mystical poems that he would sing while wandering naked throughout the land had a profound influence on Sufis and dervishes and other ruba'i composers, especially Abu Sa'id, Ibn Sina and Omar Khayyam. Included in the Introduction... The Life, Times & Poetry of Baba Tahir Oryan, a History of the ruba'i and examples by its greatest exponents, Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Poetry. Selected Bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these immortal four-line poems. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 187 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. If he comes to Iran I will kiss the fingertips that wrote such a masterpiece inspired by the Creator of all." 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. "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). 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, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Amir Khusrau, Bulleh Shah, Iqbal, Ghalib, Dara Shikoh, Makhfi, Nazir Akbarbadi and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com

The Four 'Babas' of Sufi Poetry

The Four 'Babas' of Sufi Poetry PDF Author: Baba Tahir
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717117069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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THE FOUR 'BABAS' OF SUFI POETRY Baba Tahir, Baba Azfal, Baba Farid & Rahman Baba SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Baba Tahir, or Oryan ('The Naked') of Hamadan... approx. 990-1065, was a great God-intoxicated, or God-mad soul (mast) and possibly a Qutub (Perfect Master) who composed about 120 known ruba'i in a simpler metre than the usual 'hazaj' metre. His simple, mystical poems that he would sing while wandering naked throughout the land had a profound influence on Sufis and dervishes and other ruba'i composers, especially Abu Sa'id, Ibn Sina and Omar Khayyam. Included in the Introduction... the life of Baba Tahir, an essay on the ruba'i and on Sufi Poetry. Bibliography. Baba Afzal (1186-1256) came from Maraq near Kashan. He is the author of many Persian works on philosophical and metaphysical subjects and translated the Arabic version of Aristotle's 'The Book of the Soul' into Persian. He was a Sufi and the author of about 500 mystical and at times controversial ruba'is . He is one of the greatest poets among the philosophers of Islam and one of the greatest of this form. Introduction includes: The Life, Times & Work of Baba Afzal, The father of Punjabi poetry Baba Farid (1173-1266) was born in the Punjab. Khwaja Bakhtiar Kaki was Baba Farid's Spiritual Master. Kaki met Mu'in ud-din Chishti at Baghdad and became his disciple. Farid, the Sufi Master poet laureate from Punjab is famous for his wise and spiritual couplets (slokas)... 112 of them are in the bible of the Sikhs. Hospitals and factories and even a town named after him. Introduction on The Life, Times and Poetry of Baba Farid. Rahman Baba (1652 to 1711) is considered the greatest Sufi Pashtun poet to compose poems, mainly ghazals, in the Pashtu language. Born in Mohmand region of Afghanistan near Peshawar he was called 'The Nightingale of Peshawar'. This was a time of struggle and hardship and in the midst of the turmoil he was an excellent student with a natural gift for poetry. His Divan is 343 poems... ghazals and a few qasidas and mukhammas. Introduction is on his Life & Times & Poetry and the Forms in which he wrote. The correct rhyme-structure is kept as well as the meaning of these beautiful, enlightened poems by all four great Sufi poets. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" Pages 498. Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sa'di, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mu'in, Abu Nuwas, Ibn al-Farid, Seemab, Jigar, Lalla Ded, Hali, Baba Farid and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, children's books, biographies and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com

BABA TAHIR The 'Naked' Sufi Poet... Ruba'iyat

BABA TAHIR The 'Naked' Sufi Poet... Ruba'iyat PDF Author: Baba Tahir
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ISBN: 9781078241588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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BABA TAHIR The 'Naked' Sufi Poet... Ruba'iyat (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Baba Tahir, or Oryan ('The Naked') of Hamadan... approx. 990-1065 A.D., was a great God-intoxicated, or God-mad soul (mast) and possibly a Qutub (Perfect Master) who composed about 120 known ruba'i in a simpler metre than the usual 'hazaj' metre. His simple, mystical poems that he would sing while wandering naked throughout the land had a profound influence on Sufis and dervishes and other ruba'i composers, especially Abu Sa'id, Ibn Sina and Omar Khayyam. Included in the Introduction: The Life, Times & Poetry of Baba Tahir, a History of the ruba'i and examples by its greatest exponents, Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Poetry. Selected Bibliography. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept and beauty and meaning of these immortal four-line poems. Large Print (18pt) & Large Format (8" x 10") 216 pages. Paul Smith (b. 1945) 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, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Amir Khusrau, Bulleh Shah, Iqbal, Makhfi, Nazir, Seemab, Jigar, Huma, Dard, Mir, Hali and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa

The Lament of Bābā Tāhir

The Lament of Bābā Tāhir PDF Author: Bābā-Ṭāhir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds

The Cambridge History of the Kurds PDF Author: Hamit Bozarslan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108583016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1027

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

Modern Iranian Poetry

Modern Iranian Poetry PDF Author: Saeed Saeedpour
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059516014X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Modern Iranian Poetry offers new horizons of poetic vision and imagination by major contemporary Iranian poets such as Nima, Shamlu, Forugh,Sohrab.The poetic English rendition provides the English reading public with a unique insight into the subconscious culture of a nation that has mystified the world. Poignant and lyrical, the poems generate visionary moments of clairvoyance for the experience of post modern life with all its wonder and complexity.Iranian poet and translator, Saeed Saeedpoor studied English literature in the U.S., where he lived for 12 years. He has won high critical acclaim for his poetic and precise renditions of Persian poetry into English and the reverse, published in meticulous bilingual editions. His translations include: From Shakespeare to Eliot and Beyond: Anthology of English poetry presented in Persian. Our Voice Today: Modern Iranian poetry rendered into English. Emily Dickinson’s selected poems & letters Khayyam’s Rubaiyat: An authentic rendition into English Quatrains (Unesco edition) Ahmad Shamlu’s selected poems( to be published)

A Fool of God

A Fool of God PDF Author: Baba-Tahir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sufi poetry, Persian
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Classical Persian Literature

Classical Persian Literature PDF Author: A.J Arberry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135799008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Reprint of a classic text, this volume gives an insight into the rebirth of national literature in the national language and traces the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century.

What Have You Carried Over?

What Have You Carried Over? PDF Author: Gülten Akın
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584980964
Category : Turkish poetry
Languages : tr
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Edited by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne. Translations from the Turkish by Ruth Christie, Cemal Demircioğlu, Arzu Eker-Roditakis, Talat S. Halman, Mel Kenne, Nermin Menemencioğlu, Önder Otçu, Saliha Paker, Dionis Coffin Riggs, İpek Seyalioğlu, Sidney Wade, and Özcan Oğuz Yalım. In a poll conducted by the longstanding Milliyet Arts Journal in 2008, Gülten Akin (1933-) was voted the 'greatest living Turkish poet' by an outstanding majority of Turkey's writers, poets, and literary critics.

History of Iranian Literature

History of Iranian Literature PDF Author: J. Rypka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401034796
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence. Such a work must obviously contain as many novel features as possible, so that a short explanation of what my collaborators and I had in mind when planning the book is perhaps not superfluous. In the first place our object was to present a short summary of the material in all its aspects, and secondly to review the subject from the chronological, geo graphical and substantial standpoints - all within the compass of a single volume. Such a scheme precludes a formal and complete enumeration of names and phenom ena, and renders all the greater the obligation to accord most prominence to matters deemed to be of greatest importance, supplementing these with such figures and forms as will enable an impression to be gained of the period in question - all this is far as possible in the light of the most recent discoveries. A glance at the table of contents will suffice to give an idea of the multifarious approach that has been our aim. We begin at the very first traces of evidence bearing on our subject and continue the narrative up to the present day. Geographically the book embraces Iran and its neighbouring countries, while it should be remarked that Iranian literature in its fullest sense also includes Indo-Persian and Judeo-Persian works.