Translation & creation Paul Smith

Nizami (d. 1208) is a real Sufi grasp Poet who's most famed for his six books in masnavi shape: The Treasury of the Mysteries, Layla and Majnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven snap shots and his books on Alexander. He additionally composed a Divan of roughly 20,ooo couplets quite often in ghazals and ruba’is… tragically simply 2 hundred couplets live to tell the tale. His effect on Attar, Rumi, Sadi, Hafiz, Jami, Shakespeare and others that used to be profound. incorporated within the advent… at the existence, instances & Poetry of Nizami contains chapters on his six masnavis and his Divan, and at the a number of sorts of poetry he used and a specific Bibliography. the right kind rhyme-structure has been stored in addition to the sweetness and that means of those incredible two-line maxims that aren't merely profound, but additionally uncomplicated. Illustrated 214 pages in paperback.

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It isn't a joke... the English model of all of the ghazals of Hafiz is a smart feat and of paramount significance. i'm astonished. If he involves Iran i'll kiss the fingertips that wrote this kind of masterpiece encouraged by way of the author of all and that i will lay down my head at his ft out of respect.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
“Superb translations. ninety nine% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith.” Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz’s Divan off through heart.
“Smith has most likely prepare the best choice of literary proof and heritage touching on Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author).
“I was once very inspired with the wonderful thing about those books.” Dr. R.K. Barz. college of Asian stories, Australian nationwide University.

Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over eighty books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages… together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, and so on, in addition to poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and screenplays.