Bebakhshid: A Recollection of Bygone Persian Poesies and Balladry

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From the Love, Prayers, Devotion, Joy and Enigma to the Laments, Qalandariyat, Sin, Exile and Debauchery of the Persian Qalandars and Mystics. Selected translated English verses, quatrains, rubai, ghazals, masnawis and qasidehs of Saadi Shirazi, San'ai, Rudaki, Farrukhi Sistani, Mahsati, Baba Taher, Omar Khayyam, Amir Khusrau, Hafez, Jalal ud-din Md Rumi, Attar of Nishapur, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Nezami Ganjavi, Abd'l Rahman Jami, Nasir Khusraw, Saib of Tabriz and several Persian masters and Qalandars - spanning eras, courts, dilapidated wine houses, prisons and millennials compiled into a single Richly-Illustrated Book, from a variety of sources. Translations from Sir Richard Francis Burton, Edward Fitzgerald, Coleman Barks, John Moyne, E.H. Whinfield, Dick Davis, Paul E. Losensky, Lt. Col. H. Wilberforce Clarke, Edward Heron-Allen, Alfaham Darabandi, Charles Schefler and several other scholars of the Persian Literature. Re-Live your Persian Dreams!