Lives of the Sufi & Dervish Poets - Paperback

by Paul Smith (Author)

LIVES OF THE SUFI & DERVISH POETS by Paul Smith SUFISM: LIVES OF ITS POETSHere are the lives of over 150 Sufi & Dervish poets from the 7th c. to the present. All the famous ones are included with more space, but there are many who will be a discovery for some. Directions to where to find translations of the poetry of each poet is given. Introduction: Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Use of Poetry & The Main Forms in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Kashmiri, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushtu & English Sufi & Dervish Poetry... THE POETS: Majnun, Rabi'a of Basra, Abu Nuwas, Dhu'l-Nun, Bayazid Bastami, Al-Nuri, Junaid, Mansur Hallaj, Ibn 'Ata, Rudaki, Shibli, Baba Tahir, Abu Sa'id, Ibn Sina, Baba Kuhi, Ansari, Al-Ghazali, Sana'i, Gilani, Ahmed Yesevi, Mahsati, Abu Madyan, Khaqani, Mu'in, Suhrawadi, Nizami, Ruzbihan, 'Attar, Auhad ud-din Kermani, Kamal ud-din, Ibn al-Farid, Ibn 'Arabi, Baba Farid, Baba Afzal, Rumi, Sadi, Al-Busiri, Al-Shushtari, 'Iraqi, Sultan Valad, Humam, Yunus Emre, Shabistari, Nizam ud-din, Amir Khusrau, Hasan Dihlavi, Simnani, Auhadi, Ibn Yamin, Khaju Kermani, Obeyd Zakan, Emad, Hafiz, Lalla Ded, Jahan Khatun, Ruh Attar, Haydar, Junaid Shirazi, Shah Ni'matu'llah, Ahmedi, Kadi Burhan-ud-din, Kamal, Maghribi, Suleyman Chelebi, Sheykhi, Kasim Anwar, Jili, Nesimi, Nund Rishi, 'Arifi, Kabir, Shah Da'i, Jami, 'Aishah al-Ba'uniyah, Baba Fighani, Pir Sultan, Vashi, Urifi, Amanullah, Khayali, Fuzuli, Kahi, Huda'i, Faizi, Qutub Shah, Tausani, Rahim, Mullah Shah, Sa'ib, Ghani Kashmiri, Mirza, Nef'i, Dara Shikoh, Sarmad, Khushal, Sultan Bahu, Ashraf Khan, Nasir Ali, Niyazi, Makhfi, Bedil, Abdul-Kadir, Rahman Baba, Khwaja Mohammad, Hamid, Wali, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Mushtaq, Fitnet, Ali Haider, Sauda, Dard, Ahmad Shah, Shaida, Nazir, Zafar, Hatef, Mir, Sachal Sarmast, Esrar Dede, Galib, Nur 'Ali Shah, Bibi Hayati, Rida 'Ali Shah, Muzaffar 'Ali Shah, Aatish, Zauq, Ghalib, Momin, Dabir, Anees, Shefta, Tahirah, Dagh, Hali, Farid, Shad, Akbar Allahabadi, Khusrawi, Ahmad Shawqi, Munis 'Ali Shah, Iqbal, Inayat Khan, Seemab, Ashgar, Jigar, Khadim, Huma, Veysel, Firaq, Josh, Khalili, Nurbaksh, Paul. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 428 pages. Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of 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, Lalla Ded, Iqbal, Ghalib, and others and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books, screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa