Here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyss...
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Mar 10, 2010
Whitaker
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With due apologies to any Muslim readers:
Amar Ayyar: Dude! You’re back! Where’ve you frigging been man?
Amir Hamza: I’ve been trapped in Qaf for 18 years. This hot babe wanted me so bad she wouldn’t let me go. But don’t let my woman know that. Now where’s my woman? You been looking after my woman for me, like I told you too?
Amar Ayyar: I got bad news, man. Her old man took her back.
Amir Hamza: That m-f-ker! I’m gonna f-king kill that fuckard! Hey, Naushveran, you f More...
Amar Ayyar: Dude! You’re back! Where’ve you frigging been man?
Amir Hamza: I’ve been trapped in Qaf for 18 years. This hot babe wanted me so bad she wouldn’t let me go. But don’t let my woman know that. Now where’s my woman? You been looking after my woman for me, like I told you too?
Amar Ayyar: I got bad news, man. Her old man took her back.
Amir Hamza: That m-f-ker! I’m gonna f-king kill that fuckard! Hey, Naushveran, you f More...
Jul 16, 2011
Rodney
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Farooqi’s translation of Amir Hamza—the Urdu Star Wars—is a wonder. His prose is clear and efficient, but with a wide-ranging diction and syntactic richness that carries some flavor of the elevated, Persian-inflected “courtly” style which passed for poetic when Lakhnavi and Bilgrami first fixed the Amir into print. Just one example:
“The singers of the pleasure garden of ecstacy and the melodists of the assembly of discourse thus create a rollicking rumpus by playing the dulcimer of d More...
“The singers of the pleasure garden of ecstacy and the melodists of the assembly of discourse thus create a rollicking rumpus by playing the dulcimer of d More...
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Mar 29, 2011
Kathy
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Reviewed at : Mama Kucing Books :The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi & Abdullah Bilgrami
WARNING : TO BE READ WITH AN OPEN MIND.
The story in this book is something like The Arabian Nights Tales.
It's a really beautiful tale. The wordings were flowery and meaningful.
However, I think I would love it more if it's translated into the Malay language like what I've read in Hikayat Seribu Satu Malam.
In my opinion, the book should have been na More...
WARNING : TO BE READ WITH AN OPEN MIND.
The story in this book is something like The Arabian Nights Tales.
It's a really beautiful tale. The wordings were flowery and meaningful.
However, I think I would love it more if it's translated into the Malay language like what I've read in Hikayat Seribu Satu Malam.
In my opinion, the book should have been na More...
Apr 10, 2010
Nick
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It's astonishing to discover another Arabian Nights, completely delightful and every bit as all-engulfing as Ali Baba and friends. The Adventures of Amir Hamza has it all: heroes and villains, all-knowing viziers and doltish sultans, tales of selfishness and sacrifice. No tour of world literature is complete without reading this book. One note of caution: it's currently out in paperback, and the spine is not up to the challenge of holding all the pages. Suggest you find it in a (used) hardc
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Dec 10, 2010
Zach
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I probably would've liked this book a lot more if I weren't on a tight deadline to get it read. Dastans are meant to be sort of neverending stories, and Amir Hamza certainly lives up to that.
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Jul 09, 2009
Ali
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If you wanna know what Inspired stories like lord of the rings and Harry potter and other adventurous magical tales... and get on perhapps the greatest fairytale adventure rollercoaster ride.
Jul 30, 2011
not worth it. Way too repetitive and unimaginative. No complexity in the plot, no serious challenges to the protagonists over 900 pages and 30 years...
Mar 12, 2010
Wow! Looks like it would be way overwhelming, but would like a crack at it anyway!
Dec 12, 2008
Meri
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Fairy tales are always much more interesting before the church in power takes hold of them. You can see this with Grimm's: it has its stories about evil cannibalistic queens and those about Christian men teaching those godless Jews a lesson. Well, Amir Hamza had some great stories about court intrigues and master thieves, but then he starts just converting everyone to Islam. Ho hum.
Feb 12, 2008
Edward
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Very Arabian Nights--ish. If you like silly adventure and supernatural powers-- fun. The Middle East version of the Iliad.
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