Author: Hoja Ahmed Yassawi, Virve Trapman
Translator: Jonathan Trapman

Publisher: Living Zen Books

Size/Vol.: A5_EXTRA (17.3x23.5 cm - 6.81x9.25 in)

ISBN : 9780992638306

Language : English

-Binding: Hardback

- Pages: 320

- Weight: 772g

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- This first ever English translation of 11th century Sufi mystic, Hoja Ahmed Yassawi's Divine Wisdom (Diwani Hikmet) offers us a glimpse of some 149 poetic sacred verse. Written almost 1000 years ago, they resonate as relevantly today as they did when he first wrote them. His verses take us into the journey of the self. They reflect through his own experiences the challenges we all face in making head or tail of life and the spiritual quest. His no nonsense style, directly challenging the arrogance, deceit, puffed up egos of so called leaders as well as the ignorant, contrasts his own struggle to merge with the Divine. His life experience found him in trade, as a dervish, renowned spiritual teacher, family man, wastrel and ultimately revered saint. The excellent and scholarly appendix by Sayyn Nazarbekuly, as well as the preface from the Russian translation, by Anuarbek Bokebay help the reader in acclimatising to Yassawi's life and times and the beauty of his verse. There is also a full glossary of the few original terms integrated.