Publishers of Books on Early Christianity, Sufi
Poetry, Gnosticism, the Fourth Way,
and Celtic and Other Mythology
The mystical poets of Islam offer great poetry and profound spiritual understanding. The wealth and depth of their poetry cannot be captured in a single translations, and different translations focus variously on their poetic qualities, their spiritual understanding, their literal meaning or their contemporary relevance.
Hafiz:
New Nightingale New Rose
A beautiful verse translation
Online Hafiz material
Ghazels
from the Divan of Hafiz
An elegant accurate prose translation (forthcoming)
Omar
Khayyam
Three
translations of the Rubaiyat—Fitzgerald’s classic rendering,
McCarthy’s extensive literal translation and Le Gallienne’s
superb verses.