EARLY SUFI POETS & MASTERS Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. CONTENTS: SUFIS & DERVISHES: THEIR ART & USE OF POETRY... 7 THE IMPORTANCE OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM... 31 THE LOVE OF GOD AND ECSTASY... 44 HASAN BASRI (died. 728 ad)... 55 RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI... 66 IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM, (PRINCE OF BALKH) (d 875)... 79 FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ, (THE HIGHWAYMAN) (d 803 ad)... 90 BAYAZID BASTAMI (d 874 ad)... 97 DHU'L NUN OF EGYPT (d 860 ad)... 106 MANSUR HALLAJ (died 922 ad)... 125 HABIB AJAMI (Died 773 ad)... 147 AVICENNA (IBN SINA) (ad 980-1037)... 154 AL GHAZZALI (ad 1058-1111)... 180 FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (ad 1119-1229)... 203 SUHRAWARDI (1153-1191 ad)... 252 JALALUDDIN RUMI (1207-1273)... 264 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY... 345 LARGE PRINT (14PT) & LARGE FORMAT EDITION (7" X 10") 347 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 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. 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, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Jahan Khatun, Lalla Ded, Rahman Baba, Iqbal, Ghalib, Nazir, Shah Latif and many others... as well as his own poetry, fiction, talks & essays, plays, television, musicals, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa Published by New Humanity Books.
