The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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The Kasidah is essentially a distillation of Sufi thought in the poetic idiom of that mystical tradition; Burton had hoped to bring Sufist ideas to the West.Tags
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Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890.
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- Original publication date
- 1919
- Disambiguation notice
- Haji Abdu El-Yezdi is a pseudonym of Burton.
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- Arabic, English, Spanish
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- ASINs
- 29
