OBEYD ZAKANI,PAUL SMITH's OBEYD ZAKANI'S MOUSE & CAT PDF

OBEYD ZAKANI’S >MOUSE & CAT^^
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Obeyd Zakani’s Mouse & Cat is a satirical, epic fantasy within the poetic type of the qasida that used to be influential on the time it was once composed (14th C.) and has remained so for the previous six hundred years. it's greater than only a tale for kids (that a few say caused the comic strip of Tom & Jerry)… it's a tale of the stupidity of the fake strength of these in strength and a caution to all that such blind ambition continuously results in destruction by the hands of 1 much more robust. here's a attractive, poetic translation retaining to the proper type of the well-known qasida illustrated with exact Persian miniatures. incorporated is an extended creation at the existence, occasions and Writings of Obeyd Zakani. Appendixes comprise… Examples of all different translations into English; Obeyd plays Mouse & Cat for a tender prince (from the Novel/Biog. Hafiz of Shiraz); and the 1st whole Translation into literal English in 1906. chosen Bibliography. 169 pages in paperback.

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Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over eighty books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre etc, in addition to poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and screenplays.