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Islamic & Persian Books of Wisdom
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items A luminous shelf of Islamic philosophy, Persian poetry, mysticism, and sacred imagination—from Rumi, Hafez, and Attar to Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazali, Averroes, and Suhrawardi. Books of reason, love, illumination, and the soul’s search.
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Pos...
Ferdowsi “Shahnameh” The Persian Book of Kings
An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. A Penguin Classic The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of...
The Mirror of My Heart: Persian Poetry by Women
Composed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant works of Persian literature. A marvelous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism—an esoteric system concerned with the se...
Attar “The Conference of the Birds”
Poetry. Sufism. Middle Eastern Literature. Arab American Studies. Translated from the Persian by Reza Ordoubadian. Shamsed-din Hafez was born some six hundred years ago in southern Iran, but his poems have universal and contemporary appeal. Wherever ...
Poems of Hafez
Shihäb al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical...
Suhrawardi “The Philosophy of Illumination”
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the en...
Al-Ghazali “The Niche of Lights”
Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) emerged from an eminent family in Muslim Spain to become the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world; his meticulous commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him favorable mention ...
Averroes "Ibn Rushd Decisive "Treatise & Epistle
Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi (1572-1640), more commonly called Mulla Sadra, was one of the grand scholars of later-period Islamic philosophy and has grown to become one of the best-known Muslim philosophers. Iksir al-'arifin, or Elixir of the Gnostic...
Mulla Sadra Elixir of the Gnostics Eng-Arab
Avicenna offers a description and healing properties of drugs: their dissolution, boiling down, adhesiveness, sleep-inducing properties, and so forth that are described with any other properties they may have. The list of just some of the properties ...
Avicenna Healing Properties of Minerals & Herbs Vol 2
Exercise itself is divided into three main parts: The Massage (which is equivalent to massaging your muscles before you start to exercise); The Exercise itself; and lastly the Cold Bath. Giving one of the greatest benefits of the regimen of exercise,...
Avicenna On Exercising, Bathing & Treating Fatigue
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, be...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book One
The most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Qur'an in Persian". Book Two is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses on the struggle against th...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book Two
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi'...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book Three
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi'...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book Four
'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi'...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book Five
'Until effaced no one can actually Enter the Court of Holy Majesty. What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension? Non-being: the mystics' law school and religion.' Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and The Masnavi is his m...
Rumi “The Masnavi” Book Six
Al-Farabi (d. 950 AD), known in medieval Latin texts as Alfarabius or Avennasar, was one of the most outstanding and renowned Muslim philosophers. He became known as the second teacher, the first being Aristotle. On the Perfect State reflects al-Fara...
Al-Farabi "On the Perfect State"
This deluxe, full color edition of the Rubáiyát contains the original and acclaimed illustrations by Edmund Dulac, plus the first and fifth editions of the text. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám attained fame when it was translated and introduced to a We...
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Collector's Ed.
The oldest Zoroastrian religious scripture, handed down from ancient times, is the Avesta. One section of the holy book is known as the "Khordeh Avesta" or "Smaller (i.e. Selected) Avesta". This is the book of daily prayers of the Zoroastrians, inclu...
Khordeh Avesta (Avestan and English Edition)
This new edition of the thousand-year-old classic work by Ferdowsi, one of Persia's greatest poets, is a prose translation of the national epic. It is fully illuminated with over 500 pages of lavish illustrations. Like other great epics, Shahnameh is...
Ferdowsi “Shahnameh” Illustrated Slipcase Edition