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The Kasîdah
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"The Kasîdah, Lady Burton tells us in the biography of her husband, was written by Sir Richard Burton on his return from Mecca in 1854...Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdi...was one of his Eastern noms-de-plume...In his little Foreword to the Reader, the better to disguise his authorship, he calls himself the 'Translator' and signs 'F.B.,' or Frank Baker, an English nom-de-plume from Francis, his second name, and Baker, his mother's family name"--Bibliographical note.
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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi is a long poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," who was an invention by the true author Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi translates to "Lay of the Higher Law." The Kasidah was a distillation of Sufi thought. Burton hoped to bring the ideas of Surfism to the West. This book has a biography for the assumed author as well as notes on the poem itself.
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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi is a long poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," who was an invention by the true author Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi translates to "Lay of the Higher Law." The Kasidah was a distillation of Sufi thought. Burton hoped to bring the ideas of Surfism to the West. This book has a biography for the assumed author as well as notes on the poem itself.
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