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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
Table and recordsStreams
TraditionAll (7)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (7)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (0)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (7)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (0)The path (7)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (7)Prose (4)Verse (3)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (7)Arabic (3)Persian (4)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)
PeriodAll (7)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (1)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (1)6th century AH (2)7th century AH (2)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (1)
In the readerAll (7)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (7)

7 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
The Wonders of the Heartعجائب القلب (إحياء علوم الدين، الكتاب 21)al-GhazālīThe path5th century AHArabicListed only
The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin to Returnمرصاد العباد من المبدأ إلى المعادNajm al-Dīn Rāzī DāyaThe path7th century AHPersianListed only
Spiritual Coupletsمثنوی معنویJalāl al-Dīn RūmīThe path7th century AHPersianListed only
The Conference of the Birdsمنطق الطیرFarīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭārThe path6th century AHPersianListed only
The Stations; Reminder to the Intelligent and Admonition to the Heedlessكتاب المواقف؛ ذكرى العاقل وتنبيه الغافلEmir ʿAbd al-Qādir al-JazāʾirīThe path13th century AHArabicListed only
The Walled Garden of Truthحدیقة الحقیقةSanāʾīThe path6th century AHPersianListed only
Treatise on the Differences between Breast, Heart, Inner Heart and Coreبيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللبal-Ḥakīm al-TirmidhīThe path3rd century AHArabicListed only

Records

The Wonders of the Heart

عجائب القلب (إحياء علوم الدين، الكتاب 21)

ʿAjāʾib al-qalb (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, book 21)

al-Ghazālī (450–505/1058–1111)

Sufism · The path · Arabic · 5th century AH · Listed only

The body is a city, the heart is king, faculties are his army (anger), spies (senses) and treasurer;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1095-1105, Baghdad/Damascus/Tus (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Cairo/Beirut eds.; Būlāq · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Walter James Skellie, The Marvels of the Heart (Fons Vitae 2010); Timothy Winter, On Disciplining the Soul and On Breaking the Two Desires (ITS 1995, books 22-23) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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  • Resonance, not influence: The refinement of character The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Resonance, not influence: Republic The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

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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Spiritual Couplets

مثنوی معنوی

Masnavī-yi maʿnavī

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672/1273)

Sufism · The path · Persian · 7th century AH · Listed only

Royal parables: the king and the handmaiden (the soul and the divine physician), Sultan Maḥmūd and Ayāz, the king's hawk;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1258-73, Konya (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • R. A. Nicholson (Gibb Memorial 1925-40) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Nicholson (1925-40, free on archive.org); Jawid Mojaddedi (Oxford World's Classics) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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The Conference of the Birds

منطق الطیر

Manṭiq al-ṭayr

Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (d. c. 618/1221)

Sufism · The path · Persian · 6th century AH · Listed only

Birds seek the Simurgh, their king;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1177, Nishapur (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Gowharin (Tehran 1342 sh) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Darbandi and Davis (Penguin 1984) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: Spiritual Couplets The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

The Stations; Reminder to the Intelligent and Admonition to the Heedless

كتاب المواقف؛ ذكرى العاقل وتنبيه الغافل

Kitāb al-Mawāqif; Dhikrā l-ʿāqil wa-tanbīh al-ghāfil

Emir ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (d. 1300/1883)

Sufism · The path · Arabic · 13th century AH · Listed only

A statesman-Sufi's meditations on the heart, reason and love;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1850s-1860s; Dhikrā 1855, Bursa, Damascus (after exile) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Damascus ed. · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Michel Chodkiewicz (ed.), The Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader (SUNY 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works

The Walled Garden of Truth

حدیقة الحقیقة

Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqa

Sanāʾī (d. c. 525/1131)

Sufism · The path · Persian · 6th century AH · Listed only

Mathnawī with sections on kings and justice, mixed with mystic teaching.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1131, Ghazna (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Modarres Razavi (Tehran 1329 sh) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • David Pendlebury (The Walled Garden of Truth, London 1974) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Treatise on the Differences between Breast, Heart, Inner Heart and Core

بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب

Bayān al-farq bayn al-ṣadr wa-l-qalb wa-l-fuʾād wa-l-lubb

al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī (d. c. 295–320/910–930)

Sufism · The path · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

The soul as an inner city;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
late 9th-early 10th c., Tirmidh (Transoxiana) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Bernd Radtke · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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