Zahir K. Dhalla: Nine Ginans of Nine Ismaili Pirs – Download Free eBook, available for 3 days

Zahir K. Dhalla has launched his third non-profit eBook which for a limited time (3 days starting today, that is Friday February 20 to Sunday February 22) he is making available free at Amazon.com. You may download this book now to read it later (download information below).

“Nine Ginans of Nine Ismaili Pirs: A Brief History of Khoja Ismailis”

Contains a selection of nine Ginans (hymn-lyrics) of nine Ismaili Pirs (preacher-saints) who originally were sent from Persia-Iran to the Sindh-Gujarat-Punjab regions of South Asia, the first of these nine Pirs arriving in the second half of the 13th century. A brief history of Khoja Ismailis (as the South Asian converts are known) is presented, followed by a detailed word-by-word transliteration and translation. This work should be of interest not only to the younger generations of Khoja Ismailis seeking to know more about their heritage but also to any reader looking for poetry of a different culture.

Net proceeds go to needy school children in author’s birth town Tanga, Tanzania.

Zahir K. Dhalla is a retired GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and IT (Information Technology) freelance consultant in Toronto, Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Nairobi, Kenya (mapping science) and the University of Toronto, Canada (computer science). All his eBooks to date are non-profit for the benefit of needy school children in Tanga, Tanzania where the author was born, raised and finished high school. His next publication, currently undergoing final review and edit, is “The Willowdale Jamat Khana Story”. His next project is to make all his eBooks available in print.

http://theismailisoftanga50s60s.blogspot.com/

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