Divan Attar: Volume 1 of 2 — Persian with English translation (EPUB + PDF) Price: 5.00 USD

The first of two volumes presenting the complete ghazals of Farid ud-Din Attar of Nishapur in a bilingual, line-by-line edition. This volume holds ghazals 1 to 416, the poems whose rhymes run from the letter Alef to the letter Sin, 416 poems in 4,818 couplets.

Each Persian couplet appears in the original, followed immediately by its English translation, so a reader of either language can follow the verse in the other. The Persian is set in a clear modern typeface and reads right to left as it should; the English is plain and faithful rather than ornamental, keeping Attar's images and turns of thought in his own order.

Attar, the twelfth-century Sufi master of Nishapur and the author of The Conference of the Birds, was the poet Rumi called his own teacher in spirit. His 852 ghazals are among the most intense lyric poetry of Persian mysticism. The volume opens with a short preface on the Divan and on this bilingual method, and a contents list of every ghazal by number and first line.

Translated by Yahya Nazer, whose bilingual editions of Rumi, Saadi, Hafez, Attar, Khayyam and Ferdowsi number more than sixty volumes.

You receive the book in two formats: EPUB (Apple Books, Thorium, any e-reader app) and PDF (opens anywhere).