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Bilingual Sufi-Christian poetry collection
286 pages of translations
12th century Azerbaijani master
Includes famous prison qasida
Original rhyme structure preserved
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KHAQANI The Great Sufi/Christian Azerbaijani/Persian Poet SELECTED POEMS Translation Introduction Paul Smith. Khaqani (or Afzaladdin Ibrahim ibn Ali Nadjar) was born in Shirwan in Azerbaijan in 1122 and he died in Tabriz in 1199. He was a great poet and a master of the qasida and one of the first of the ghazal. He was born into the family of a carpenter in Melgem, near Shamakhy. He lost his father and was brought up by an uncle, a doctor and astronomer at court of the Shirwanshah, who acted as his nurse and tutor. His mother was a Christian and Jesus features in many of his poems including his famous Christian qasida composed in jail, here fully translated. After he was invited to court he assumed the penname Khaqani (regal). A court poets life bored him and he fled to Iraq inspiring his famous masnavi A Gift from the Two Iraqs. He also wrote The Ruin of Madain painting his impression of the remains of Sassanids Palace near the Ctesiphon. Returning home Shah Akhistan ordered his imprisonment. Released he moved to Tabriz but his small son died, then daughter, then wife. Alone, he soon died. He is buried at the Poets Cemetery in Tabriz. He left a remarkable, large heritage of poems in Persian that influenced many court and Sufi poets. A major influence on his poems was Sanai. Introduction on his Life, Poetry Times and Forms he composed in two Great Persian Sufi Poets Who Influenced Khaqani. The correct rhymestructure has been kept in this largest selection of his ghazals...

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Binding: Paperback;286 pages; Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP; Classification: N/A; Weight: 693.34 g; Dimensions: N/A

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