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RUBA'IYAT OF KHUSHAL The Sufi Saint, Poet & Warrior of Afghanistan Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Khushal Khan Khattak (1613-1689) was a Pashtun poet, warrior, Sufi Master and chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashtu during the reign of the Mughals and fought the fanatic Aurangzeb and admonished Afghans to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite. He was the father of fifty-seven sons, some fine poets and thirty daughters. He is the author of over 200 works in Pashtu and Persian, consisting of Poetry, Sufism, Medicine, Ethics, Religious Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Falconry, etc., together with an account of the events of his own life. He wrote many ghazals, over 2000 ruba'is (over 200 translated here), qasidas, qi'tas and masnavis. Introduction: Life, Times & Poetry of Khushal; Forms & History of the Ruba'i; Selected Bibliography. Correct rhyme-structure of the ruba'i is kept and the meaning of these beautiful, powerful, and often spiritual (Sufi) four line poems. Large Print (16pt), Large Format (7" x 10") Pages 300. 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 Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, and many others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books, 12 screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
RUBA'IYAT OF KHUSHAL The Sufi Saint, Poet & Warrior of Afghanistan by Khushal Khan Khattak is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.
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