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A poem that is fire

Sen McGlinn — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:55:29 +0000

A poem that is fire,
by Nader Naderpour,
born in Tehran 1929, died in exile, 2000

Translated Sen McGlinn, 2009 (c) creative commons

Riding a moonbeam

Sen McGlinn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:20:34 +0000

The thief and the moonbeam

The eagle's pride

Sen McGlinn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:48:27 +0000

This cautionary tale from Nasir Khosrow exists in many variants. Several versions are available on the internet: search on روزی ز سر سنگ عقابی به هوا خاست

God's weaver

Sen McGlinn — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:17:56 +0000

Parvin E’tesami (1907-1941)

God’s weaver

This is a debate poem, between a busy spider and a lazy fellow, but beginning with an extensive section of description. I’ve translated just this introduction. We've been discussing it in a class on Intellectual Debates in Iranian Modernism (part of the Master's course at Leiden: see http://tinyurl.com/6k8mel)

'Abdu'l-Baha's Resaleh-ye Madaniyyeh

Sen McGlinn — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:59:54 +0000

I’ve been working
on an encyclopaedia article on Abdu’l-Baha’s “Secret of Divine
Civilization”. I’m putting the article up here for a while for
comments. Naturally the published version will have proper
transliterations, which are missing here