of 'ATTAR (Pocket Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Farid al-din 'Attar is seen with Sana'i and Rumi (who he met and influenced) as one of the three most important Sufi Poet-Masters of the 13th century. He composed over forty books mainly in the epic form, his most famous being and He also composed many powerful mystical poems in the form that influenced Sadi and Hafiz and all who came later. 'Attar's powerful, honest and controversial remain as fresh today as they always were. With 'Attar the image of the ... the drunken debauchee, the thief of love, the carefree outsider, the honest scallywag, appears as the poet, the lover... the voice of the The way of the or the path of 'no blame' has now stepped onto the stage of the play of the history of the and the story of the lover and beloved, the wine and the intoxicated, the Master and the devotee... will never be the same again! Here for the first time is over 400 of his poems in the correct-rhyme structure with the beauty and meaning of these immortal poems. Introduction on his Life & Times and Poetry and an essay on Sufi Poetry and the Selected Bibliography & Glossary. Pocket-sized Paperback 397 pages. Comments on Paul Smith's Translation of Hafiz's ' '. "It is not a joke... the English version of all the of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu, Hindi 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, Lalla Ded, Makhfi, Ghalib, Iqbal, Rahman Baba, Bedil, Baba Farid, 'Iraqi, Ibn al-Farid, Nesimi, Amir Khusrau, Seemab, Jigar, Hali and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa