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Other than Masnavis (Translated Copy) Paperback Book

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Complete Nizami Divan translation
205 ghazals in correct form
First English translation available
Large print format (16pt)
Includes mystical poems collection
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POEMS FROM THE DIVAN OF NIZAMI (Other than Masnavis) 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 and Majnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven Portraits and his two books on Alexander. He also composed a Divan of approximately 22,ooo couplets mostly in ghazals and rubais... tragically only 205 ghazals and 69 rubais and a handful of qasidas survive. The influence of his ghazals on those of Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz and Jami and all others that followed was profound. Here are ALL of his remaining ghazals, rubais and qasidas translated into English for the first time in the correct form and a good selection from his other masterpiece masnavis in the long Introduction on the life and Times and Poetry of Nizami and on The Form Function of the Ghazal, Qasida Rubai. Selected Bibliography. The correct rhymestructure has been kept and the power and meaning of these beautiful, usually mystical poems. Azerbaijan has named 2021 the Year of Nizami Ganjavi. Large Print (16 pt) Large Format (8" x 10") 294 pages. Comments on Paul Smiths Translation of Hafizs 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...

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