MIR: SELECTED SUFI POEMS:

by Mir

SELECTED SUFI POEMS (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation and Introduction Paul Smith... Mir Taqi Mir (1723 - 1810) was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century and one of the pioneers of Urdu. He was a principal poet of the Delhi school of the Urdu ghazal. Born in Agra, left for Delhi after the death of his father. At 17 he had a mental break-down and suffered from bouts of madness all his life. After the sack of Delhi he moved to the court in Lucknow where he stayed for the remainder of his life. Like many Urdu poets Mir’s literary reputation is from his ghazals. After moving to Lucknow his daughter died, then his son and wife. Like Obeyd Zakani and others before him Mir practiced the Malamati or ‘Blameworthy’ aspect of Sufism. He was a ghazals, masnavis, qit’as, ruba’is, etc He also composed in Persian a Divan, a unique autobiography and a book on Urdu Poets and a book of spiritual advice for his son. This is the largest selection in English of most forms of his poetry with form and meaning. Life & Times & Poetry, Selected Bibliography, On the Various Poetic Forms Mir used. Large Print (16pt) Large Format (7” x 10” ) 214 pages 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, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mu’in, Amir Khusrau, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Iqbal, Baba Farid and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, children’s books, biographies and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa

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Published April 23, 2020