Anvari: Selected Poems

by Anvari

ANVARI: SELECTED POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Ahad-ud-din Anvari Abeverdi (1126-1189) was a court poet of the Seljuk sultans. Jami composed a ruba'i where he names him, along with Firdausi and Sadi as one of the 'three apostles' of Persian poetry. He was also a celebrated astronomer, mathematician and scientist who admitted he gave them up for the more lucrative occupation of ... a court poet, that he later rejected twenty years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479297496
• ISBN13: 9781479297498
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"