Translating Amir Khusrau’s ‘Zihaal-e-Miskeen’, The Ghazal Of Ghazals
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Featured / November 27, 2023 Translating Amir Khusrau’s ‘Zihaal-e-Miskeen’, The Ghazal Of Ghazals ‘Zihaal’ is a paradox: it combines two disparate languages so successfully in the ghazal form that they eventually became one language. On the other hand, this ghazal defies text, it defies a satisfactory interpretation of its gestures without oral rendition. Poetry often […]