Faqrnāmeh

work by Asik Pasa

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discussed in biography

  • In Aşık Paşa

    The Faqrnāmeh (“The Book of Poverty”) is also attributed to the poet. Introduced by the famous Ḥadīth “poverty is my pride,” this poem of 160 rhymed couplets deals with poverty and humility, the ideal ethic of the Muslim mystic. Aşık Paşa at his death was a…

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