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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 (2)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (1)Sufism (1)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (0)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 (1)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (1)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (16)Prose (12)Verse (2)Prose with verse (1)Diagrams (1)
LanguageAll (2)Arabic (1)Persian (1)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)
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 (2)In the reader (1)Planned (0)Listed only (1)

2 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Spiritual Coupletsمثنوی معنویJalāl al-Dīn RūmīThe path7th century AHPersianListed only
The interpreter of desiresترجمان الأشواقIbn ʿArabīLyric7th century AHArabicIn the reader

Records

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.