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Shah Nameh or the Persian Poet Firdausi
James Atkinson
Paperback - $57.95
The work here submitted to the public presents for the first time in the English language an abridgment of the heroic poem of the great poet of Persia. The Shah Nameh is indeed a history in rhyme. It comprises the annals and achievements of the ancie ...
Diwan of Abu'l-ALA
Henry Baerlein
Paperback - $32.95
An effort has been made to render in this book some of the poems of Abu'l-Ala the Syrian who was born 973 years before Jesus Christ and some forty-four before Omar Khayyam. But the life of such a man could not be told within the space at our command; ...
Bedouin Poetry
Clinton Bailey
Paperback - $54.95
This book presents 113 poems, which reflect attitudes of the bedouin, a desert-dwelling, non-literate tribe, to a variety of personal, social and political experiences. Each poem is translated into English with an introduction describing its setting ...
Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev : Mirror of a Culture
Clinton Bailey
Hardcover - $491.95
Like other nonliterate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for all forms of communication and entertainment. Based on twenty years of studying the poetry of the Bedouin of Sinai and the Negev, this book presents 115 poems ...
The Drowned Book : Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi
Coleman Barks
Paperback - $21.95
The first-ever English language version of a virtually unknown book of wisdom and insight by Bahauddin, the father of beloved Sufi poet Rumi.
A Cup of Sin : Selected Poems
Simin Behbahani
Hardcover - $41.95
As a Muslim woman writing in Iran, Simin Behbahani's collections contain some of the seminal work of twentieth-century Persian literature.
Written over almost half a century, much of her work reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped rece ...
