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- noun Plural form of
ghazal .
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Examples
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"Ghazal Queen" Vatsala Mehra is revered among singers of the lovelorn Persian songs called ghazals.
Maximum India at the Kennedy Center: What to see this week 2011
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Vatsala Mehra is revered among singers of the lovelorn Persian songs called ghazals.
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Pakistan has a rich musical tradition, including the performance of Urdu-language love poems called ghazals and mystical Sufi music called Qawwali.
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Pakistan has a rich musical tradition, including the performance of Urdu-language love poems called ghazals and mystical Sufi music called Qawwali.
The Seattle Times 2011
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In the second edition, Qamar is planning to include all the poems and 'ghazals', including those he left out of the first edition.
GotPoetry.com News 2008
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The odes (ghazals) are divided into 27 sections, each a Name for the Mystery.
Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010
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As we create and launch this multi-lingual Rumi website: OneThroughLove.org and as we present Rumi's original Persian ghazals, translated into English, Turkish and Arabic, I am reminded how translating or interpreting Rumi takes not only someone with deep Persian and English language competence, but the spiritual wisdom and the Sufi heart of a man like Coleman Barks, Andrew Harvey, Sharam Shiva, Kabir or Camille Helminski.
Stephen Olsson: Jalaluddin Rumi: Alive In Translation Stephen Olsson 2011
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In that spirit, here is a video segment of a recitation of three Rumi ghazals odes by Coleman Barks.
Stephen Olsson: Jalaluddin Rumi: Alive In Translation Stephen Olsson 2011
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"Jenkins's band played the role of the United States (playing Duane Eddy riffs) while Stuart Hall's tongue-in-cheek world music band Orquestra Mahatma played Iran (ululating horns, Persian ghazals, hypnotic Middle Eastern rhythms and so on)."
Who is England's oldest ever debutant? Paolo Bandini 2010
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The odes (ghazals) are divided into 27 sections, each a Name for the Mystery.
Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010
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