Islam In Bengali Verse (Paperback)

The translations which follow are a selection from the writings of Farrukh Ahmad (1918-1974) who rose to literary notice in the forties as a member of a new generation of Muslim poets in what was then Bengal. Essentially a dreamer, with a romantic temperament, he underwent a conversion to mysticism early in his life after a brief Bohemian period, and henceforth dedicated himself to the cultivation of themes from the history of Islam. Islam became to him identified with a personal vision of a social order embodying the highest ideals of moral justice and spiritual enlightenment. By the beginning of the fifties Farrukh came to be celebrated as the greatest Islamic poet after Nazrul Islam, the man who had given Islam