About the Book
HATEF: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith HATEF (d. 1784). Born in Isfahan in the first half of the eighteenth century Hatef is mainly remembered for his beautiful and remarkable, much celebrated tarji-band in Persian and his beautiful ruba'is and ghazals. "... a great Sufi, who wrote in both Arabic and Persian. He was especially celebrated as a writer of ghazals and was the author of a famous poem of recurring lines (tarji-band). He writes as a lover of God and uses the imagery of wine of the Divine Love which brings rapture and ecstasy to those who receive it." Margaret Smith. Here is a complete translation in the correct form, with the beauty and meaning of this great poem revealed... plus a selection of his ruba'is and ghazals. Introduction: Life & Times & Poetry of Hatef and on Sufism in Persian Poetry. Selected Bibliography, 100 pages. Introduction to Sufi Poets Series ' AISHAH Al-BA'UNIYAH, AMIR KHUSRAU, ANSARI, ANVARI, AL-MA'ARRI, 'ARIFI, 'ATTAR, ABU SA'ID, AUHAD UD-DIN, BABA FARID, BABA AZFAL, BABA TAHIR, BEDIL, BULLEH SHAH, DARA SHIKOH, GHALIB, GHANI KASHMIRI, HAFIZ, HALI, HASAN DEHLAVI, HALI, HUMA, IBN 'ARABI, IBN YAMIN, IBN AL-FARID, IQBAL, INAYAT KHAN, 'IRAQI, JAHAN KHATUN, JAMI, JIGAR, KABIR, KAMAL AD-DIN, KHAQANI, KHAYYAM, LALLA DED, MAHSATI, MAJNUN, MAKHFI, MANSUR HALLAJ, MIR, MU'IN UD-DIN CHISHTI, NAZIR, NESIMI, NIZAMI, NUND RISHI, OBEYD ZAKANI, PAUL, RAHMAN BABA, RUMI, SADI, SA'IB, SANA'I, SARMAD, SEEMAB, SHABISTARI, SHAH LATIF, SHAH NI'MAT'ULLAH, SULTAN BAHU, YUNUS EMRE, EARLY ARABIC SUFI POETS, EARLY PERSIAN SUFI POETS, URDU SUFI POETS, AFGHAN SUFI POETS, TURKISH SUFI POETS ETC... 90-120 pages each. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from 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, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books & screenplays amazon.com/author/smithpa
