گلشن راز
10 best books like گلشن راز (Mahmud Shabistari): The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War, گلستان سعدی, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia: Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
| Author | Barbara Stoler Miller |
| ISBN | 0553213652 |
If you did happen to read this sacred text, that has been around for centuries longer than some acknowledge as even a possible thing, then may I suggest the Rig Vedas. The Rig Veda Awesome reading. Such perfection.
Also, many people are familiar with Autobiography of a Yogi But the book by Paramanhansa...
Gulistan, Saadi
The Gulistan (Golestȃn "The Rose Garden") is a landmark of Persian literature, perhaps its single most influential work of prose. Written in 1258 CE, it is one of two major works of the Persian poet Sa'di, considered one of the greatest medieval Persian poets. It is also one of his...
| Author | Coleman Barks |
| ISBN | 0930872479 |
The book offer entrance into a world and beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on Persian poetry given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who brought Sufis to the West. Then it offers fresh translations by the poet Coleman Barks of some of the poetry Inayat Khan...
| Author | Du Fu |
| ISBN | 0811211002 |
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
| Author | Kabir |
| ISBN | 0807063797 |
Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.
I...
| Author | Martin Prechtel |
| ISBN | 0874779707 |
Twenty-five years ago, a young musician and painter named Martin Prechtel wandered through the brilliant landscapes of Mexico and Guatemala. Arriving at Santiago Atitlan, a Tzutujil Mayan village on the breathtaking shores of Lake Atitlan, Prechtel met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy--perhaps the...
| Author | Mahmood Jamal |
| ISBN | 0140424733 |
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679742522 |
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
| Author | Red Pine |
| ISBN | 1556591950 |
Bilingual: Chinese/English
Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375167 |
Here is the impermanent
and yet continuously flowing world.
And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.
These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
Khosrow and Shirin, Nizami Ganjavi
Khosrow and Shirin, is the title of a famous Persian tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love of the Sasanian king Khosrow II, for the...
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| ISBN | 0930872657 |
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience...
| Author | Gudo Wafu Nishijima |
| ISBN | 1419638203 |
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive translation of the 95 chapter edition of Shobogenzo, the essential Japanese Buddhist text, written in the 13th century by Zen Master Dogen. The translation adheres closely to the original Japanese, with...
Tazkirat al-Awliya = Tadhkirat al-Awliya = Tazkerat-ol-Owliya = Biographies of the Saints, Farid Al-Din Attar
Tazkirat al-Awliyā "Biographies of the Saints", also transliterated as Tadhkirat al-Awliya or Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, is a 72-chapter book written by the Persian poet and mystic...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
| Author | Faiz Ahmad Faiz |
| ISBN | 0870239759 |
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.
The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms. He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. In three definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable...
The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944
| Author | Muhammad Iqbal |
| ISBN | 1417977868 |
Iqbal is for me what Rumi was for Iqbal.
You will read this very casually at first, lying in your bed and then you will almost sit in your bed, and then you will sit upright and the book will get closer to your face and then you will lose the back support and you will sit with your legs crossed and leaning forward...
Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts
| Author | Toshihiko Izutsu |
| ISBN | 0520052641 |
In this deeply learned work, Toshihiko Izutsu compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, although historically unrelated, the two share features and patterns which prove fruitful for a transhistorical dialogue. His original and suggestive...
Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran
| Author | Henry Corbin |
| ISBN | 0691018839 |
Henry Corbin has such a formidable reputation as an expert on Islamic mysticism - and even if he did not, his erudition would immediately jump from the pages of this book anyway - that it is hard to criticize his work without feeling like a dork. Let me put it this way: reading Corbin is like quenching one's...
Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God
| Author | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali |
| ISBN | 0946621314 |
In this work, here presented in a complete English edition for the first time, the problem of knowing God is confronted in an original and stimulating way. Taking up the Prophet's teaching that 'Ninety-nine Beautiful Names' are truly predicated of God, the author explores the meaning and resonance...
