Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
10 best books like Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Abolqasem Ferdowsi): The Divan, The Gift, The Conference of the Birds, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, مثنوی معنوی, The Blind Owl, گلستان سعدی, خسرو و شيرين, هشت کتاب, غزلیات سعدی
Author | Hafez |
ISBN | 9646534783 |
The Persian poet Hafez (1320-1389) is best known as a Sufi mystic who incorporated elements of Sufism into his verses. The state of God-Realisation is symbolised through union with a Beloved, and drinking the wine of spiritual love.
This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile...
Author | Hafez |
ISBN | 0140195815 |
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."
With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
Author | Attar of Nishapur |
ISBN | 0393355543 |
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh,...
Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet Another Rumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's...
Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'D'din Muhammad Rumi
The Masnavi, or Masnavi-i Ma'navi, also written Mesnevi, Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi also known as Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi poet. It...
Author | Sadegh Hedayat |
ISBN | 0802131808 |
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And...
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...
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...
Author | Sohrab Sepehri |
ISBN | 9649007903 |
هشت کتاب: مرگِ رنگ. زندگیِ خوابه. آوارِ آفتاب. شرقِ اندوه. صدای پای آب. مسافر. حجمِ سبز. ما هیچ، ما نگاه.
Ghazaliate-Saadi, Saadi = Saadi Shirazi = Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī
Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, better known by his pen-name Saadi, also known as Saadi of Shiraz, was a major Persian poet and literary of the medieval period. He is recognized...
Dīvān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī = The Works of Šams Tabrīzī, Rumi
Dīvān-e Kabīr or Dīvān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Šams Tabrīzī) or Dīvān-e Šams is one of Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī's masterpieces. A collection of lyric poems that contains more than 40,000...
تمام روز را در آئینه گریه میکردم
بهار پنجره ام را
به وهم سبز درختان سپرده بود
تنم به پیلهء تنهائیم نمیگنجید
و بوی تاج کاغذیم
فضای آن قلمرو بی آفتاب...