Urdu translaion in verse of the selected Persian odes of Amir Khusro. Khusro was born in India in 1252 AD and died 73 years later. His maternal grandfather was the prime minister of India and throughout his life Khusro remained the favorite of kings and princes. Afluent and jovial, Khusro was a poet-musician of magical qualities. He was the inventer of Urdu language which is now spoken by hundred of million of people today. He invented many famous ragas and musical instruments. He wrote poetry in both his new language, Urdu, as well as in Persian in which he wrote thousands of odes. Khusro´s interpretation of Love´s musings is frevolous, fanciful and lovely proving that love and poetry walk hand in hand - always have and always will. In this book Khalid Hameed Shaida has presented 444 of Khusro Persian odes in Urdu.
Amir Khusrau, one of the greatest poets of medieval India, helped forge a distinctive synthesis of Muslim and Hindu cultures. Written in Persian and Hindavi, his poems and ghazals were appreciated across a cosmopolitan Persianate world that stretched from Turkey to Bengal. Having thrived for centuries, Khusrau’s poetry continues to be read and recited to this day. In the Bazaar of Love is the first comprehensive selection of Khusrau’s work, offering new translations of mystical and romantic poems and fresh renditions of old favourites. Covering a wide range of genres and forms, it evokes the magic of one of the best-loved poets of the Indian subcontinent.
From the author of Hafiz, the Voice of God; Khusro, the Indian Orpheus; and Ghalib, the Indian Beloved, comes this stunning collection of nearly three hundred selected and merry Eastern odes by the great Persian poet and mystic Born as Shamsuddin Mohamed in 1320 AD in Shiraz, Persia, Hafiz memorized the Quran at an early age to become known as Hafiz, which he later adopted as his pen name. A self taught scholar, mystic, and poet, he became the favorite of kings, princes as well as ministers and spent his adult life in affluence. Without a doubt he remains one of the most revered poets of all time and while much of his poetry has been lost over centuries, about six hundred poems, mainly odes, survive. Herein two hundred ninety nine are offered as a tiny celebration of what the world, in all her glory, provides.Hafiz
Urdu Odes of Shaida represent the romantic and inspirational Urdu poetry of Khalid Hameed Shaida MD. Playful and idealistic, the author whips the current of romance to timeless bliss and swirls the tide in our favor. He recreates a world we all wish to embrace, one of accord, decency and, above all, love. Indian born author, Khalid Hameed Shaida, earned his medical degree from Pakistan and practiced medicine in both Canada and United States. He currently lives in retirement with his wife, Marjorie, in Friendswood, TX He has translated the great Persian masters, Khusro, Hafiz, Ghalib and Iqbal, in his mother tongue of Urdu with a number of publications and reprints to his credits in Pakistan and United States. Over the years his own Urdu poetry has been published in many, many Urdu magazines in Pakistan and has been very well received. In English he has translated the poems of Hafiz (Hafiz , The Voice of God and Hafiz, Drunk with God), Khusro (Khusro, The Indian Orpheus and Amir Khusro, The Nightingale of India), Ghalib (Ghalib, the Indian Beloved) and Faiz (Faiz, The Wailing Nightingale). His own English poetry ( O Love, Romantic and Inspirational Poetry of Khalid Hameed Shaida) has also been published in the United States. All of Shaida’s books have been very well received and are selling well around the world. He is now presenting his own Urdu Odes in a book form in this volume.
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
THE BOOK OF AMIR KHUSRAU Selected Poems & The Tale of the Four Dervishes Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Amir Khusrau (1253-1324), the 'Parrot of India' was born at Patigali near the Ganges in India. At the age of thirty-six he was poet-laureate, serving many sultans. He was not only fluent in Persian, in which he composed the majority of his 92 books, but also in Arabic, Hindi and Sanskrit. He composed ten long masnavis, five Divans of ghazals and other poems and many prose works. He was a Master musician and invented the sitar. The Perfect Master Nizam ud-din took him as his disciple and eventually he became God-realized. He rebelled against narrow spirituality and helped redefine the true Sufi way. He was a profound influence on Hafiz and is seen as the link between Sadi and Hafiz in updating the form and content of the ghazal and eroticising it. This is the largest selection of his poems in English. Introduction is on his Life & Times & Poetry and the Forms in which he wrote and on Sufism & Poetry. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept and the meaning of these beautiful, enlightened poems. Appendix: Translation of his The Tale of the Four Dervishes Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 439 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. If he comes to Iran I will kiss the fingertips that wrote such a masterpiece." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of works 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). "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. Paul Smith is a poet, author and 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, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Shah Latif, Bulleh Shah, Iqbal, Ghalib, Dara Shikoh, Lalla Ded, Makhfi and many others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books, and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.
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