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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 (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (5)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 (4)The path (0)Lives and lineages (1)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (5)Prose (3)Verse (1)Prose with verse (1)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (82)Arabic (39)Persian (14)Greek (12)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (3)Chinese (0)Latin (8)Hebrew (1)Other (5)
PeriodAll (5)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (2)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (1)6th century AH (0)7th century AH (0)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (1)10th century AH (1)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)
In the readerAll (5)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (5)

5 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Andarz: Middle Persian counsel literatureاندرز (Pahlavi andarz)Anonymous (Sasanian andarz)Counsel and governanceLate antiqueOtherListed only
The PrinceIl PrincipeNiccolò MachiavelliCounsel and governance10th century AHOtherListed only
The Wisdom of Royal Gloryقوتادغو بيليگYūsuf Khāṣṣ ḤājibCounsel and governance5th century AHOtherListed 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
Book of Lords / Lives of the Kings of the Persiansخدای‌نامگ / سیر ملوک العجمAnonymous (Sasanian andarz)Lives and lineagesLate antiqueOtherListed only

Records

Andarz: Middle Persian counsel literature

اندرز (Pahlavi andarz)

Andarz

Anonymous (Sasanian andarz) (Sasanian period)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · Late antique · Listed only

Short sayings and instruction from sage to king or son;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
Sasanian, preserved in 9th-10th c. Pahlavi, Iran (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Zaehner, The Teachings of the Magi (1956); Shaki and others · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Zaehner (1956); Jamasp-Asana and West (Pahlavi Texts) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

The Prince

Il Principe

Il Principe

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · 10th century AH · Listed only

Breaks with the mirror tradition: 'the effectual truth' rather than imagined republics;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
written 1513; printed 1532, Florence (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Inglese (Einaudi 1995) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Gutenberg; Mansfield; Skinner · 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

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
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Book of Lords / Lives of the Kings of the Persians

خدای‌نامگ / سیر ملوک العجم

Xwadāy-nāmag / Siyar mulūk al-ʿajam

Anonymous (Sasanian andarz) (Sasanian period)

Further afield · Lives and lineages · Other · Late antique · Listed only

The history of kings as moral exemplar;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
6th-7th c. Pahlavi; Arabic 8th c., Iran/Baghdad (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Lost; fragments only · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works