Jami: Yusuf And Zulaikha NBDB National Book Awards Nominee for Translation (2015) Publication Date: 21 Mar 2002

Publication Date: 21 Mar 2002

Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome are charged with passion and romance

to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown

Ilan Pappé is Professor of History at the University of Exeter

Jami: Yusuf And Zulaikha NBDB National Book Awards Nominee for Translation (2015) Publication Date: 21 Mar 2002Described in the Quran as the most beautiful of stories, the romance of Yusuf and Zulaikha is a theme to which Eastern poets have constantly returned. In Jamis deeply moving, thought provoking, and highly entertaining version, it finds its greatest expression. The story explores the intimate and many levelled relationship between love and beauty, and is the most celebrated of all Jamis works. This entirely new prose translation combines a faithful