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Works

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 (4)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (2)Philosophy (1)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (1)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (4)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 (2)The path (2)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (4)Prose (2)Verse (1)Prose with verse (1)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (16)Arabic (8)Persian (4)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (3)Hebrew (1)Other (0)
PeriodAll (14)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (1)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (2)6th century AH (5)7th century AH (4)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (2)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)
In the readerAll (4)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (4)

4 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
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
Rose Garden; Orchardگلستان؛ بوستانSaʿdī of ShirazCounsel and governance7th century AHPersianListed only
The Nasirean ethicsاخلاق ناصریNaṣīr al-Dīn al-ṬūsīCounsel and governance7th century AHPersianListed only

Records

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
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

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
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Rose Garden; Orchard

گلستان؛ بوستان

Gulistān; Būstān

Saʿdī of Shiraz (d. c. 691/1292)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Persian · 7th century AH · Listed only

Gulistān book 1 is 'On the conduct of kings': tales of kings, viziers and dervishes;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1257-58, Shiraz (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Yūsufī (Tehran 1368 sh) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Eastwick (1852, free); Wickens (1974) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

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
Not in the reader yet

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