Three Great Abbasid POETS Abu Nuwas, Al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma\'arri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled the Islamic world was the golden age of Islamic culture.
Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and other languages including Hafez, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, \'Attar, Sana\'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu\'in ud-din Chishti, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Hallaj, Rudaki, Yunus Emre Ghalib, Iqbal, Makhfi, Lalla Ded, Abu Nuwas, Ibn al. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafez." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). 99% Hafez 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of English to Persian and knower of Hafiz\'s Divan off by heart. "Superb translations. of Literature) Tehran.
Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr.
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COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH\'S TRANSLATION OF HAFEZ\'S DIVAN "It is not a joke...
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Selected Bibliography.
Included in the Introduction chapters on The Abbasid Caliphate, Poetry of the Abbasid Period, Forms of Arabic Poetry of the Abbasid Period.
Here is their Lives & times and a large selection of their poetry in the correct beautiful rhyme-structures and meaning. these were Abu Nuwas, Al-Mutanabbi and al-Ma\'arri.
All the arts and sciences flourished during these 500 years and in the art of Poetry Three poets stood out among the non-Sufi poets like Ibn al-Farid...
For most of its early history it was the largest empire in the world and this meant that it had contact with distant neighbors such as the Chinese and Indians in the East and the Byzantines in the West, allowing it to adopt and synthesize ideas from all these cultures.
It ruled from 750 to 1258 AD, making it one of the longest and most influential of the Islamic dynasties.
Three Great Abbasid POETS Abu Nuwas, Al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma\'arri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled the Islamic world was the golden age of Islamic culture
