There are a number of good sites about Dari poetry, literature and art. Through my browsing
experience, i book marked the ones that interested me, and categorized
them and made this expandable menu. Go a head and check them out!
This site is not responsible for the contents of any external links.
What will you find within this site and other pages affiliated with it?
1- Rumi (Mawlana Jalaludin Balkhi), his biography, way of thinking, teaching, poems that which includes Ode and Quatrains (Ghazal and Rubayat), both in Dari/Farsi and English.
2- Bedil (Sufi Abdul Qadir Bedil), his biography, way of thinking, wahdat-ul-wojud, poems (ode and quatrains), both in Dari/Farsi and English.
3- Prosody of Dari poetry, the systematic study of Dari poetry versification which covers the principles of metre, rhythm, rhyme and stanza forms. (In Dari/Farsi) An English version will soon be available.
4- Naqd e Bedil , the writings of Halama S. Saljuqi, an Afghan intellectual. His book, a classic masterpiece is one of the well known books, covering the teachings of Sufism, aetiology, epistemology, piety;theism, psychology, monism, pantheism and metaphysics. In this page you will find many of his presentations and expertees regarding Bedil's poems and his way of thinking. (In Dari/Farsi)
4-Dari Alphabet, An advance flash developed educational movie for the purpose of learning Dari/Farsi alphabet for novice and children over the age of five. With sound, explanation of phonemes and showing exactly how to write Dari Alphabet. A fun Zone also included in that page, which contains: Fun Draw Pad (for writing), Fun Quiz (with levels), Fun Drag and Drop (matching words to the pictures).
5- Sufism (Horfan - Tasawuf), A brief history of Sufism, the way of sufis, its influence in the course of history, its teachings from within Islam. (In English)
6- Short Stories , Three very famous short stories: "Mard haa ra qawl as" , "Nazi jan hamdam man" and " Waqt e ke nai haa gul mekonad". Written by Hakram Usman. You can read the stories (in Dari) and also at the same time you can listen to the story. (Courtesy of Farda.com the stream sound is linked from that site).
7- Random Quiz, An educational flash developed quiz game, 12 question in random
about Afghanistan's history, literature, art and intellectuals. (In English)
8- Photo Gallery , Some photos of Afghanistan taking from here and there (www), to mention most of them from AISK, done by web photo album in Photoshop, a very quick method. And also the Art gallery contains some beautiful pictures, also taking from here and there, and some retouched.
9- Fihi ma fihi , Signs of the Unseen, which is a collection of Rumi's lectures, discourses, conversations in various topics. This book was given to me (Sings of the Unseen) and its translated by W.M. Thackston, JR . I typed some of its short chapters and week later did a google search, found over hundreds of sites about Fihi ma Fihi, unless i want to practice typing, i will not keep that page up to date for now. (In English)
10- Guestbook, Yes one of those pages you see in many sites. Don't we all love to read messages? It also have been a good way for Webmasters to promote their sites, call it a Site Ring, I call it "Daftar e Khateraat".
Why i wrote all these?
For two reasons: One, that my visitors will have an idea what are to be found in these pages. Two, the search engine, you see when having a web page and its contents are mostly in flash, the search engines do not read the contents of the flash file (so, now if you google you will find this page and its conetnts listed in google's directory).
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