Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiybat: A Selection of Quatrains from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century along with the Original Persian
Poetry. In A THOUSAND YEARS OF PERSIAN RUBAIYAT, Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more than a hundred Iranian poets from the beginning of written Persian poetry to the present. A ruba'i is a poem in four lines, which is complete in itself and expresses a single feeling or thought in a very concise and elegant language. The subjects of rubaiyat include divine love, the ecstasy of love, mystical knowledge, and the nature of life and existence.
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In A Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiyat, Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more than a hundred Iranian poets from the beginning of written Persian poetry to the present. In addition to the quatrains of better known poets such as Hafez, Sa'di, Rumi and Khayyam, the poems of many poets less-known in the West have been rendered into English for the first time. A ruba'i is a poem in four lines, which is complete in itself and expresses a single feeling or thought in a very concise and elegant language. The subjects of rubaiyat include divine love, the ecstasy of love, mystical knowledge, and the nature of life and existence. The tradition of sufism, the Irano-Islamic mysticism that advocates the oneness and wholeness of all things and the unity of existence (vahdate vjud), is conveyed in the majority of the poems. Reza Saberi has tried to be as faithful to the original text as is possible in English. His translation can be of special interest for speakers of Persian who try to communicate the sense of beauty of their poetry in the English language. The bilingual format of the book is also very useful for students of Persian language and literature.
Table of Contents5Introduction11Chapter 119Ja'far Rudaki19Shahid Balkhi24Abunasr Farabi25Abulqasem Ferdowsi26Daqiqi Tusi27Farrokhi Sistani28Hasan Onsori29Chapter 231Ibn Sina31Abulhasan Kharqani35Abulfaraj Runi36Abusaid Abulkhayr38Baba Kuhi44Khaja Abdullah Ansari46Amir Moezzi50Mohammad Ghazzali54Shaykh Ahmad Ghazzali56Qatran Tabrizi58Onsorulmaali60Omar Khayyam63Chapter 3121Sanai Ghaznavi121Attar Nishaburi142Mahasati Ganjei158Abulfazl Rashiduddin Maybadi170Khaqani Shervani173Ruzbehan Baqli Shirazi179Shahabuddin Sohrvardi183Zahir Faryabi185Aynulqozat Hamadani189Ohaduddin Anvari195Fakhr Razi204Abulhasan Talhe207Nezami Ganjavi210Rashid Vatvat212Majduddin Baghdadi214Raziuddin Nishaburi219Chapter 4222Jalaluddin Molavi Rumi222Sa'di Shirazi262Shaykh Fakhruddin Araqi291Serajuddin Qomri300Sa'duddin Hamavi302Sayfuddin Bakharzi309Dokhtar Salar314Khaja Nasiruddin Tusi315Kamaluddin Ismail318Najib Ganjei325Shamsuddin Sajasi327Najmuddin Razi332Baba Afzal335Ohaduddin Kermani340Homam Tabrizi353Chapter 5356Alaeddoleh Semnani356Khajuye Kermani363Salman Savaji365Obayd Zakani367Shams Maghrebi369Khaja Shamsuddin Hafez373Chapter 6387Shah Ne'matullah Vali387Abulvafa Kharazmi399Abdurrahman Jami409Chapter 7415Baba Faghani Shirazi415Mir Nosrat Kermani417Ahli Shirazi418Fekri Khorasani420Sahabi Astarabadi426Fayz Fayyazi429Vahshi Bafaqi431Chapter 8433Shaykh Baha'i433Mohammad Darashkuh442Sarmad Kashani446Mohaqqeq Ardabili Bidgoli449Mulla Shah Badakhshani451Vaez Qazvini455Chapter 9459Abdulqader Bidel459Asheq Isfahani479Moshtaq Isfahani481Hatef Isfahani485Chapter 10491Neshat Isfahani491Modarres Rafsanjani494Chapter 11498Malekushshoara Bahar498Abulqasem Halat501Saghir Isfahani506Shaykhorrais Afsar512Ra'di Azarakhshi513Hamid Sabzvari515Tuti Hamadani518Abdulhosayn Nosrat523Mohammad Mehdi Fuladvand524Jalal Behizad526Azar Isfahani529Fuad Kermani532Ahmad Srush538Mohammad Baqer Taheri540Mahdiyya Elahi Qamshei542Mohammad Reza Mortazavi545Hushang Hekmati (Sarvi)549Adibulmamalek Farahani555Nazmi Tabrizi558Sayyed Mohammad Beheshti561Ishrat Qahraman564Adib Kermani566Sayyed Hasan Mirkhani567Mansur Oji570Ali Akbar Dehkhoda577Asaf578Qaysar Aminpur579Javad Nurbakhsh581Glossary583Index of Poets587
