Reseña del libro "Shah Niaz: Selected Poems (en Inglés)"
SHAH NIAZ Selected Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Shah Niaz Ahmad (7 Aug. 1742 - 9 Oct. 1834) was prominent Sufi saint and poet. From his father's side the lineage goes back to Hazrat Ali and from his mother's side it goes to Fatima. His great grandfathers belonged to the royal family of Bukhara. His mother's name was Bibi Ladoo. She was a spiritual woman. Her teacher Shah Mohi-ud-din Diyasanami inducted her into the Qadria order of Sufism. Other than being a great Sufi saint Niaz was also a great literary figure of that time. Other than being the master of tasawwuf (Sufism) he was also a great scholar of Tafseer (Science of explanation and interpretation of the Koran), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), and Hadith (oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the prophet Mohammad). Niaz's many books include the following... Shams-ul-Ain Shareef - 'A History Of Indian Literature'; Tohfa'e Niaz ba Hazrat-e-Be-Niaz - Sufism & language (Persian); Hashiyah Sharah 'Mulla Jalaal' - Commentary on works by Hazrat Mir Zahid Mulla Jalaal, on religious philosophy (Arabic); Mazmua Qasaaid-e-Arbiya - It contains qasidas in praise of Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Abu Bakr, (Arabic); Deewan-e-Niyaz Urdu - Poetry of Niaz in Urdu & Hindi dialects; Deewan-e-Niyaz Farsi - (Persian). Hafiz's influence is obvious in his ghazals.. Here is the largest selection of his Ghazals and Qit'as from the Persian in English in the correct form and meaning with Introduction on Poetry in Sufism, The Forms in which he wrote, his Life, Times, Poetry, Selected Bibliography. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 158 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." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith (b. 1945) 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, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Shah Latif, Mahsati, Bulleh Shah, and others and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
