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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 (3)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (3)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (3)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 (3)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (82)Prose (73)Verse (5)Prose with verse (3)Diagrams (1)
LanguageAll (3)Arabic (1)Persian (1)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (1)
PeriodAll (3)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (1)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (0)7th century AH (1)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (1)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)
In the readerAll (3)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (3)

3 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
The Unique Necklaceالعقد الفريدIbn ʿAbd RabbihCounsel and governance4th century AHArabicListed only
Rose Garden; Orchardگلستان؛ بوستانSaʿdī of ShirazCounsel and governance7th century AHPersianListed only
Vernacular Secretum versionsPoridat de las poridades; Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Secreta secretorum (Old French, German, Russian, Welsh...)Anonymous and later translators (Castilian, English)Counsel and governance9th century AHOtherListed only

Records

The Unique Necklace

العقد الفريد

al-ʿIqd al-farīd

Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (d. 328/940)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 4th century AH · Listed only

Book 1 al-Luʾluʾa (The Pearl) on the sultan, one of the first Andalusi mirrors in anthology form.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
early 10th c., Cordoba (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Amīn, Zayn, Abyārī (Cairo 1940-53) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • partial · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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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

Vernacular Secretum versions

Poridat de las poridades; Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Secreta secretorum (Old French, German, Russian, Welsh...)

Poridat de las poridades; Secrees

Anonymous and later translators (Castilian, English) (13th–15th c. CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · 9th century AH · Listed only

Wide vernacular diffusion made the Secretum a mirror for princes in dozens of languages.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
13th-15th c., Spain, England, France, German lands, Russia (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Kasten, Poridat de las poridades (Madrid 1957); Steele, EETS e.s. 66 (1894); Manzalaoui, Secretum secretorum: Nine English Versions (EETS 276, Oxford 1977) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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