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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 (6)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (1)Philosophy (1)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (4)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (6)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 (5)The path (1)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (6)Prose (6)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (6)Arabic (5)Persian (0)Greek (1)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)
PeriodAll (82)Archaic and classical Greek (7)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (4)Late antique (4)2nd century AH (5)3rd century AH (6)4th century AH (6)5th century AH (8)6th century AH (12)7th century AH (16)8th century AH (4)9th century AH (4)10th century AH (3)11th century AH (2)13th century AH (1)
In the readerAll (6)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (6)

6 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Spiritual Physickالطب الروحانيAbū Bakr al-RāzīCounsel and governance3rd century AHArabicListed only
Treatise on the Differences between Breast, Heart, Inner Heart and Coreبيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللبal-Ḥakīm al-TirmidhīThe path3rd century AHArabicListed only
Book of the Crown (on the characters of kings)كتاب التاج في أخلاق الملوكal-Jāḥiẓ (attributed)Counsel and governance3rd century AHArabicListed only
Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικάPhotius of ConstantinopleCounsel and governance3rd century AHGreekListed only
Letter of Ṭāhir to his son ʿAbd Allāhرسالة طاهر بن الحسين إلى ابنه عبد اللهṬāhir b. al-ḤusaynCounsel and governance3rd century AHArabicListed only
Choice Reports (Book 1: al-Sulṭān)عيون الأخبارIbn QutaybaCounsel and governance3rd century AHArabicListed only

Records

Spiritual Physick

الطب الروحاني

al-Ṭibb al-rūḥānī

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. c. 313/925)

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Reason as king of the soul against passion;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 900-925, Rayy (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Paul Kraus, Rasāʾil falsafiyya (Cairo 1939) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • A. J. Arberry, The Spiritual Physick of Rhazes (London 1950) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: Republic The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Resonance, not influence: Phaedrus (chariot myth, 246a-254e) The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Treatise on the Differences between Breast, Heart, Inner Heart and Core

بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب

Bayān al-farq bayn al-ṣadr wa-l-qalb wa-l-fuʾād wa-l-lubb

al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī (d. c. 295–320/910–930)

Sufism · The path · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

The soul as an inner city;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
late 9th-early 10th c., Tirmidh (Transoxiana) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Bernd Radtke · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Book of the Crown (on the characters of kings)

كتاب التاج في أخلاق الملوك

Kitāb al-Tāj fī akhlāq al-mulūk

al-Jāḥiẓ (attributed) (d. 255/868)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Describes the ceremonial, conversation and etiquette of the Sasanian-style king, an exemplar for caliphal court.

Attribution
disputed: TDV says 'attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ' (Câhiz'e nisbet edilen). checked in İskender Pala, “Nasihatnâme”, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2006)
Date
9th–10th c.; TDV (Siyâsetname) calls it one of the first works with the siyāsatnāma genre's marks, dedicated to the vizier al-Fatḥ b. Khāqān, in a preface and four parts (basis: date of composition) probable
Editions
  • Aḥmad Zakī Pasha (Cairo 1914) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Charles Pellat, Le Livre de la Couronne (Paris 1954) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])

Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικά

Photius to Boris; Paideia basilikē (Theophylact); Basil I, Kephalaia

Photius of Constantinople (c. 810–after 893 CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Greek · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Christian ruler as imitator of Christ;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
9th-11th c., Constantinople; Ohrid (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Letter of Ṭāhir to his son ʿAbd Allāh

رسالة طاهر بن الحسين إلى ابنه عبد الله

Risālat Ṭāhir b. al-Ḥusayn ilā ibnihi ʿAbd Allāh

Ṭāhir b. al-Ḥusayn (fl. 206/821)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Instruction to a new governor: fear God, justice, no personal indulgence;

Attribution
authentic checked in Hasan Hüseyin Adalıoğlu, “Siyâsetnâme”, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2009)
Date
206/821, to his son ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṭāhir on his appointment; al-Maʾmūn had it copied and sent to governors (TDV, citing al-Ṭabarī VIII, 582–591) (basis: date of composition) checked in Hasan Hüseyin Adalıoğlu, “Siyâsetnâme”, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2009)
Editions
  • Ṭabarī, vol. 3 (de Goeje series) text · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Bosworth, JNES 29 (1970) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Choice Reports (Book 1: al-Sulṭān)

عيون الأخبار

ʿUyūn al-akhbār

Ibn Qutayba (d. 276/889)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Book 1 gathers sayings on rulers, the first systematic Arabic ethic of power.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 880, Baghdad (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Dār al-Kutub (Cairo 1925-30); later ed. · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • partial · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works