Selected Stories & Satires of Obeyd Zakani
- (Large Print & Large Format Edition)
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- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 238
- Udgivet:
- 20. august 2020
- Størrelse:
- 203x254x13 mm.
- Vægt:
- 481 g.
- 2-3 uger.
- 10. december 2024
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SELECTED STORIES & SATIRES OF OBEYD ZAKANI (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Obeyd Zakani is an important a figure in Persian and Sufi literature and poetry. His satire, humorous stories, ribald and obscene poems, social commentary, mystical ghazals, prose, ruba'is and his famous epic qasida 'Mouse & Cat' are popular today and are more relevant than ever. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest satirist and social-commentator whose life and mystical poems had a great influence on his student and friend Hafiz and many others. Here are most of his hilarious and often obscene satirical prose works, mostly fully translated... Including his Definitions, Joyous Treatise, The Ethics of the Nobles, The Book of the Beard and A Hundred Maxims. Included is a long Introduction on his Life & Times in Shiraz and his relationship to Hafiz and the princess poet, Jahan Khatun. Selected Bibliography. Large Print (16pt) & Large Format (8" x 10") Paperback 236 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 of English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, authorand 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, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays.
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