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

1 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
The Wonders of the Heartعجائب القلب (إحياء علوم الدين، الكتاب 21)al-GhazālīThe path5th century AHArabicListed only

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The Wonders of the Heart

عجائب القلب (إحياء علوم الدين، الكتاب 21)

ʿAjāʾib al-qalb (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, book 21)

al-Ghazālī (450–505/1058–1111)

Sufism · The path · Arabic · 5th century AH · Listed only

The body is a city, the heart is king, faculties are his army (anger), spies (senses) and treasurer;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1095-1105, Baghdad/Damascus/Tus (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Cairo/Beirut eds.; Būlāq · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Walter James Skellie, The Marvels of the Heart (Fons Vitae 2010); Timothy Winter, On Disciplining the Soul and On Breaking the Two Desires (ITS 1995, books 22-23) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

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