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 records Streams

TraditionAll (12)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (1)Sufism (2)Philosophy (2)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (7)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)

GenreAll (2)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 (2)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)

FormAll (2)Prose (0)Verse (2)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)

LanguageAll (2)Arabic (0)Persian (2)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 (2)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (2)

2 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼	Author	Genre	Period	Language	Status
The Conference of the Birdsمنطق الطیر	Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār	The path	6th century AH	Persian	Listed only
The Walled Garden of Truthحدیقة الحقیقة	Sanāʾī	The path	6th century AH	Persian	Listed only

Records

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

Not in the reader yet

Connected works

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

The Walled Garden of Truth

حدیقة الحقیقة

Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqa

Sanāʾī (d. c. 525/1131)