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

5 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
The Walled Garden of Truthحدیقة الحقیقةSanāʾīThe path6th century AHPersianListed only
The Wisdom of Royal Gloryقوتادغو بيليگYūsuf Khāṣṣ ḤājibCounsel and governance5th century AHOtherListed only
The Conference of the Birdsمنطق الطیرFarīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭārThe path6th century AHPersianListed only
Spiritual Coupletsمثنوی معنویJalāl al-Dīn RūmīThe path7th century AHPersianListed only
The interpreter of desiresترجمان الأشواقIbn ʿArabīLyric7th century AHArabicIn the reader

Records

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
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

The Wisdom of Royal Glory

قوتادغو بيليگ

Kutadgu Bilig

Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥājib (fl. 462/1069)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · 5th century AH · Listed only

Four allegorical figures (Justice/king, Fortune/vizier, Intellect/sage, End/ascetic) debate kingship and the afterlife in a Turkic mathnawī.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
462/1069–70, presented to the Karakhanid ruler Tavgach Ulugh Bughra Khan (TDV) (basis: date of composition) checked in Hasan Hüseyin Adalıoğlu, “Siyâsetnâme”, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2009)
Editions
  • R. R. Arat (Istanbul 1947) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Robert Dankoff, Wisdom of Royal Glory (Chicago 1983) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

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

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

The interpreter of desires

ترجمان الأشواق

Tarjumān al-ashwāq

Ibn ʿArabī (560–638/1165–1240)

Ibn ʿArabī · Lyric · Arabic · 7th century AH · In the reader

Reader: poems I–X with Nicholson's translation and the poet's commentary.

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
Translations
  • R. A. Nicholson, The Tarjumán al-Ashwáq (London, 1911), Arabic and English · en · public domain probable
Read it hereReader: poems I–X with Nicholson's translation and the poet's commentary.