The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Unusual Association,signed by Francis X. Bushman)

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The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî is a long English language poem written by "Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title "Lay of the Higher Law" It is thus a pseudotranslation, pretending to have had an original Persian text, which never existed The Kasidah is essentially a distillation of Sufi thought in the poetic idiom of that mystical tradition; Burton had hoped to bring Sufist ideas to the West

This American edition is in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine (in English) and the front cover (in Arabic) The spine ends and corners are very slightly bumped, and there is slight foxing on the page edges, but no other marks or damage The signature of the once popular silent-era actor Francis X Bushman is on the front pastedown, indicating that it was likely owned by him

Francis Xavier Bushman (1883 â€" 1966) was an American film actor and director His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s