Publisher's Synopsis
The BIG Pocket Book of ARABIC SUFI POETRY An Anthology Translation & Introduction Paul Smith INTRODUCTION includes... Sufis: Their Art and Use of Poetry & The Main Forms in Arabic Sufi Poetry. Included with each selection of a particular poet is a brief biography plus a list of further reading. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept and meaning of these beautiful, powerful, mystical poems. THE POETS... Hazrat Ali, Majnun (Qays ibn al-Mulawwah ibn Muzahim), Rabi'a of Basra, Abu Nuwas, Dhu'l-Nun, Bayazid Bistami, Al Nuri, Junaid, Sumnun, Mansur al-Hallaj, Ibn 'Ata, Shibli, Al-Ma'arri, Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazzali, Gilani, Abu Madyam, Suhrawadi, Ibn al-Farid, Ibn 'Arabi, Al-Busiri, Al-Shushtari, Jili, Aishah al-Ba'uniyah, Ahmad Shawqi. Small Format Paperback 5" x 16" Pages 477. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author, 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, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Lalla Ded, Rahman Baba and others, his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
