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10 best books like The Bezels of Wisdom (Ibn Arabi): The Divan, The Gift, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, The Conference of the Birds, The Essential Rumi, The Prophet, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

The Divan
AuthorHafez
ISBN9646534783
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...
The Gift
AuthorHafez
ISBN0140195815
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...
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
AuthorAbolqasem Ferdowsi
ISBN0670034851
Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning...
The Conference of the Birds
AuthorAttar of Nishapur
ISBN0393355543
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,...
The Essential Rumi
AuthorRumi
ISBN0062509594
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.

Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range...
The Prophet
AuthorKahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.

The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that...
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
AuthorRumi
ISBN0060604522
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...
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
AuthorZahirud-din Muhammad Babur
ISBN0375761373
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
Mystical Dimensions of Islam
AuthorAnnemarie Schimmel
ISBN0807812714
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel,...
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
AuthorHafez
ISBN0143037811
From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers

To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With...
Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
AuthorHenry Corbin
ISBN0691058342
"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality." —From...
The Illuminated Rumi
AuthorRumi
ISBN0767900022
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...

In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz,...
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
AuthorRumi
ISBN0873957245
This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey of the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God,...
The Way of the Sufi
AuthorIdries Shah
ISBN0140192522
In this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, contemplations, letters, lectures, and teaching stories that together form an illuminating introduction to this unique body of thought.
Sufism, the...
دیوان كلیات شمس تبریزی
AuthorRumi
ISBN0003027600
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...
Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
AuthorImam al-Mawlud
ISBN1929694156
Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf

This exploration of Islamic spirituality delves into the psychological diseases and cures of the heart. Diseases examined include miserliness, envy, hatred, treachery, rancour, malice, ostentation,...
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
AuthorTariq Ramadan
ISBN0195308808
Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar, with a large following especially among young European and American Muslims. Now, in his first book written for a wide audience, he offers a marvelous biography of the Prophet...
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