Rahman Baba in English
Rahman Baba is a towering giant.
Although dead for over 300 years, the insights and statements of this remarkable man are still quoted and enjoyed up and down the NWFP.
Now for the first time all of Rahman Baba's poems have been translated into English. You can buy them in a coffee table edition, or as a sampler of his best loved poems, or study the whole diwan in a single, fat volume with English and Pushtu texts side by side.
Put Rahman in your pocket
Rahman on your coffee table
With beautiful photos of people and places taken in and around the Peshawar Valley Rahman knew so well, this selection in English is an eye-catcher. Share the wit and wisdom of the remarkable Rahman Baba with friends and visitors. From the comfort of your own living room. (Or baytuck!) ... read more
Early copies of the diwan were made by hand and were apparently in wide circulation as early as 1728. But translation of the diwan into English has been limited. Now all 343 of these remarkable poems have been patiently, carefully translated into English, published in Peshawar. ... read more
The complete diwan
Now for the first time the entire works of this Pushtun poet have been translated into English and published. It's 900 pages long with the English and Pushtu texts on adjacent pages.
This remarkable translation is the result of four years' work by Momin Khan, a Pakistani university graduate from the Swat Valley, and Robert Sampson, a former teacher at Edwardes College in Peshawar. Though Pushtuns generally possess few books, the diwan of Rahman Baba is in steady demand in the bookshops of Peshawar’s storytellers’ bazaar. Now English readers can enjoy it as well. ... read more
Selected all-time favorites
Rahman Baba was onen of the most remarkable men to live on the long border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been buried in a magnificent mazar close to Peshawar, and now you can read his most quoted poems in this handy pocket edition.
The poems of this much loved Pathan reveal the inner world, and ideals and aspirations, of many Pathans, regardless of their tribe or worldly achievements. He speaks to them and for them, across 300 years, and now you can study and enjoy the richness of what he said and stood for in this powerful little collection. ... read more
