POEMS OF MAJNUN...
FOR AND approximately HIS LAYLA

Translation & creation through Paul Smith

Majnun was once a true individual! Qays (Majnun=’madman) used to be a early life, a Bedouin poet within the 7th century of the Bani Amir tribe within the Najd barren region in Arabia. He fell in love with Layla from a similar tribe whom he was once denied. (It is related that Shakespeare was once encouraged by means of their story for Romeo & Juliet from their tragic love story). such a lot of his recorded poetry used to be composed earlier than his descent into love-madness (mast) then via an ideal grasp… his non secular unification together with his loved. Nizami’s well-known telling in their story got here from this accumulated poems (Divan) and different assets. Many different Persian, Turkish and Urdu poets imitated him or wrote their very own models of the tale of the peak of human love that grew to become Divine. right here within the kind of the qit’as during which they have been composed, is the most important selection of poems placed into English. 220 pages within the 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 brilliant feat and of paramount value. i'm astonished. If he involves Iran i'm going to kiss the fingertips that wrote this kind of masterpiece encouraged by means of the writer of all.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
“Superb translations. ninety nine% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith.” Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator and knower of Hafiz’s Divan off by way of heart.
“Smith has most likely prepare the best choice of literary proof and historical past pertaining to Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author).

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, Mu’in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Bulleh Shah, Mahsati and others, and his personal poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and screenplays