The Nightingale of Peshawar
By Jens Enevoldsen, selections from Rahman Baba
The Nightingale of Peshawar is an unsurpassed English translation of fifty poems from the work of the 17th Century Pashtun mystic “Poet of Divine Love”, Abdur Rahman Baba. Each poem is also presented in the original Pashto script, with English poetic translation on facing pages, with cultural and linguistic annotations, and a scholarly introduction by Jens Enevoldsen.
The Nightingale of Peshawar is an unsurpassed English translation of fifty poems from the work of the 17th Century Pashtun mystic “Poet of Divine Love”, Abdur Rahman Baba. Each poem is also presented in the original Pashto script, with English poetic translation on facing pages, with cultural and linguistic annotations, and a scholarly introduction by Jens Enevoldsen.
