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Rahman Baba: the Pashto Sufi poet

Rahman Baba, the seventeenth-century Mohmand poet of Peshawar, left a single Diwan of mostly ghazals that remains the best-loved book of Pashto poetry. What is known of his life, his themes, his translators and his shrine at Hazarkhwani.

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