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Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

"It is [an] irony of oppression that the solution chosen to eliminate an enemy often guarantees that enemy's enduring fame. [N]o one knows the names of [Nasir Khusraw's] oppressors, but his poems...speak across centuries...to anyone who has [known] war, oppression or terror."

—Alice Hunberger, Nasir Khusraw: The Ruby of Badakhshan

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