The Kasdah of HjAbdEl-Yezdis a long English-language poem written by "HjAbdEl-Yezd", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton, a well-known British Arabist and explorer.Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat.