{"product_id":"persian-poets-hardcover","title":"Persian Poets - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they combine religious and secular themes. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine, and poetry itself, or telling humorous anecdotes of everyday life, they use these subjects to symbolize deeper concerns with wisdom, mortality, salvation, and the quest for God.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West. \u003cbr\u003eThe great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they combine religious and secular themes. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine, and poetry itself, or telling humorous anecdotes of everyday life, they use these subjects to symbolize deeper concerns with wisdom, mortality, salvation, and the quest for God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including \u003ci\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's \u003ci\u003eBaboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 6.46 x 4.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773078503712,"sku":"9780375411267","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2650e02caedf63116f9c1b5665e66191.webp?v=1780419092","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/persian-poets-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}