Secret of Secrets (Hebrew versions)
סוד הסודות
Sod ha-sodot
Judah al-Ḥarīzī (c. 1170–1235 (draft says c. 1190–1225; unchecked))
Further afield · Counsel and governance · Hebrew · 7th century AH · Listed only
Medieval Jewish readers took the Secretum into Hebrew;
- Attribution
- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- 13th c., Spain / Provence (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- M. Gaster, 'The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum', JRAS 1907-08 · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works
- Resonance, not influence: The Secret of Secrets The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
The spirit of holiness
روح القدس في محاسبة النفس
Rūḥ al-quds
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Lives and lineages · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: the portraits of his teachers.
- Attribution
- authentic: The reader catalogue lists it as his work; Yahia 1964 not yet in hand. probable
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: the portraits of his teachers. The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin to Return
مرصاد العباد من المبدأ إلى المعاد
Mirṣād al-ʿibād min al-mabdaʾ ilā l-maʿād
Najm al-Dīn Rāzī Dāya (d. 654/1256)
Sufism · The path · Persian · 7th century AH · Listed only
A Sufi path with a long chapter addressed to kings and rulers;
- Attribution
- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- 620/1223, Sivas (dedicated to Kayqubād I of Rum) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- M. A. Riyāḥī (Tehran 1352 sh/1973) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
- Translations
- Hamid Algar (Caravan 1982) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works
- Resonance, not influence: The Wonders of the Heart The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
The prayer of the highest circuit
حزب الدور الأعلى
Ḥizb al-dawr al-aʿlā
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Prayer and litany · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: complete; attributed to Ibn ʿArabī.
- Attribution
- disputed: The reader labels it 'Ibn ʿArabī (attributed)'; the basis for the attribution has not been checked. not yet checked
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: complete; attributed to Ibn ʿArabī. The ringstones of wisdom
فصوص الحكم
Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Metaphysics and cosmology · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: chapters 1–6 and 15 (Adam, Seth, Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, Jesus); not the whole book.
- Attribution
- authentic: The reader catalogue lists it as his work; Yahia 1964 not yet in hand. probable
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: chapters 1–6 and 15 (Adam, Seth, Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, Jesus); not the whole book. On Kingship
De regno ad regem Cypri
De regno
Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only
Monarchy best;
- Attribution
- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- c. 1267, Rome/Orvieto (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- Leonine ed. (vol. 42) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
- Translations
- Gerald Phelan and I. Eschmann, On Kingship (Toronto 1949); Dyson (CUP 2002) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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On the Rule of Princes
De regimine principum
De regimine principum
Giles of Rome (d. 1316)
Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only
Three books on self-governance (ethics), the household (economics), and the kingdom (politics): the Platonic-Aristotelian triad as in Ṭūsī.
- Attribution
- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- c. 1280, Paris (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- Rome 1556 · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
- Translations
- Briggs (Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, Stanford/Brill 1999) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet
Connected works
- Resonance, not influence: Politics; (pseudo-)Economics The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
- Resonance, not influence: The Secret of Secrets The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
The weekly litanies
أوراد الأسبوع
Awrād al-usbūʿ
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Prayer and litany · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: the opening prayer and Sunday's prayers only.
- Attribution
- authentic: The reader catalogue lists it as his work; Yahia 1964 not yet in hand. probable
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: the opening prayer and Sunday's prayers only. The prayer of effusion
الصلاة الفيضية
al-Ṣalāt al-fayḍiyya
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Prayer and litany · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: complete; attributed to Ibn ʿArabī.
- Attribution
- disputed: The reader labels it 'Ibn ʿArabī (attributed)'; the basis for the attribution has not been checked. not yet checked
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: complete; attributed to Ibn ʿArabī. The Meccan openings
الفتوحات المكية
al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya
Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)
Ibn ʿArabī · Metaphysics and cosmology · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader
Reader: the introduction and chapter 1 only.
- Attribution
- authentic: The reader catalogue lists it as his work; Yahia 1964 not yet in hand. probable
- Date
- not yet checked (author d. 638/1240) (basis: the author's death date) not yet checked
Read it hereReader: the introduction and chapter 1 only. The Nasirean ethics
اخلاق ناصری
Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (597–672/1201–1274)
Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Persian · 7th century AH · Listed only
Three parts: ethics (Miskawayh), household management (tadbīr-i manzil), and the management of cities (siyāsat-i mudun);
- Attribution
- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- 633/1235 (draft; unchecked) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- Mojtabā Mīnuvī and ʿAlī-Riḍā Ḥaydarī (Tehran 1356 sh/1977) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
- Translations
- G. M. Wickens, The Nasirean Ethics (London: Allen and Unwin 1964) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works
- Resonance, not influence: Opinions of the people of the virtuous city The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
- Resonance, not influence: Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ, book X (prophecy, law and the city) The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
- Resonance, not influence: The refinement of character (recorded as lineage, shown as a resonance until its reference is checked) The Platonic Current's note cites TDV (“Tûsî, Nasîrüddin”) as saying the Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī follows the Tahdhīb al-akhlāq, giving page comparisons. That note was reused; the TDV article was not re-read this session. Confidence: medium. probable
Bacon's glossed edition of the Secretum
Secretum secretorum cum glossis et notulis
Roger Bacon (1214–1292)
Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only
Bacon edits the Philip-of-Tripoli text with glosses (on hygiene, optics, astrology), using it to argue for scientific reform.
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- authentic not yet checked
- Date
- c. 1270s, Oxford/Paris (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- Steele fasc. V (1920) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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