The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1533204241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 52 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Very good Kindle Edition of an incredible work. What I liked about this Kindle Edition was that the footnotes were well preserved and available to read reasonably quickly after each footnote number appeared in the text; that there were no OCR errors and very, very few typographical errors; and most importantly that the NOTES were included. The full set of additional Notes are not included in many other free public editions.Warning: this Kasidah contains a carefully considered critique of world religious thought, from the time before the Egyptians to approximately 1880.
Nonetheless, it is a Sufi text to the core, and one of the few instances of Burton writing in the first person about his belief system, even if it is under the cloak of a different name. It contains references to 19th Century scientific and philosophical concepts. The same rhyme has to run through the entire composition, not matter how long the poem is.. This was written by Sir Richard Burton under the pseudonym of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî after his return from Mecca in 1854. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a Kasidah is a classical Arabic or Persian panegyric, which must begin with a reference to a forsaken campground, followed by a lament, and a prayer to ones comrades to halt while the memory of the departed dwellers is invoked