Sa'di of Shiraz

SA'DI OF SHIRAZ: SELECTED POEMS (Large Type & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Sa'di of Shiraz (1210-1291), was a Sufi Perfect Master (Qutub) Poet who expressed himself in the ruba'i form as well as hundreds of ghazals in his beautiful Divan that often also contained images from dervish dancing. Sa'di was a great traveller who spent forty years on the road throughout the Middle-East, North Africa and India and many of the incidents he experienced he wrote down in his two most famous works when he finally returned to his beloved birth-place... The Rose Garden and The Orchard. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of many of these unique mystical poems. ALL of his ghazals and many of his ruba'is, and some of his masnavis & qit'as and all of his famous couplets from his Pand-Nama (Wise Sayings have been translated in clear, modern, meaningful English. Introduction: Life & Times & Poetry of Sa'di of Shiraz and his influence on the East and the West and on the form and meaning of the ghazal and the ruba'I, a Glossary and a Selected Bibliography. Large Type 16pt. Large Format Paperback "8 x 10" 369 pages Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Mansur Hallaj, Yunus Emre, Mu'in, Ibn Farid, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Abu Said, Ghalib, Nazir, Iqbal, and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, children's books, biographies and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa