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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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BABA FARID Sufi Master Poet's Poetic Sayings (Slokas): (Large Print & Large Format Edition) (Large Print Edition)

BABA FARID Sufi Master Poet's Poetic Sayings (Slokas): (Large Print & Large Format Edition) (Large Print Edition)

Farid, Baba
Smith, Paul

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1079580999
ISBN13: 9781079580990
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 11 2020
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.37 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
BABA FARID Sufi Master Poet's Poetic Sayings (Slokas) (Large Print & Large Format Edition)Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The father of Punjabi poetry Baba Farid (1173-1266) was born in the Punjab. Khwaja Bakhtiar Kaki was Baba Farid's Spiritual Master. Kaki met Mu'in ud-din Chishti at Baghdad and became his disciple. The king at Delhi, Balban, welcomed Farid in Delhi. His daughter married Farid. Baba Farid, the Sufi Master poet laureate from Punjab is famous for his wise and spiritual couplets (slokas)... 112 of them are in the bible of the Sikhs (whom he influenced) the Guru Granth, and 128 are translated here with the correct rhyme-structure and meaning. Hospitals and factories and even a town are named after him. Introduction on The Life, Times and Poetry of Baba Farid, Sufis & Dervishes: Their Art & Use of Poetry. Large Print (16pt) & Large Format (8 x 10) 171 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, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mahsati, Seemab, Jigar, Hali and many others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays.amazon.com/author/smithpa

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