Nesimi: Life & Poems
By Paul Smith
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By Paul Smith
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NESIMI: LIFE & POEMSTranslation & Introduction Paul SmithNesimi (1369-1417) is one of the greatest Sufi poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and one of the most prominent early masters in Turkish/Azerbaijani literary history. For Nesimi at the centre of Creation there was God, who bestowed His Light on man. Through sacrifice and self-perfection, man can become one with Him. As a direct result of his beliefs he was skinned alive. His tomb in Aleppo remains an important place of pi...


