The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation
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Layli and Majnun
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Mirror of My Heart
An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.
A Penguin Classic
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Sweet Lunacy
“Divine Intoxication” is a common theme in Middle Eastern poetry. The “wine” on which the seeker becomes “drunk” is nothing less than the nectar of love. Such “inebriation,” however, often produces unconventional behavior, even hints of madness, marking the lover as one apparently lost to the ordinary world.
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Hafiz
The Persian poet Hafiz (1315 1390) is a literary wonder with unmatched spiritual insights. Now, renowned artist and writer Rassouli dives heart first into the Divan of Hafiz to offer you fresh translations and glorious color illustrations so you can take your own journey into the Wisdom of Madness.
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Splitting the Moon
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Conference of the Birds
|Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar (who died, in 1220, when Rumi was 12 years old) is best known for his epic poem The Conference of the Birds, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning.
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Splitting the Moon
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Shahnameh
Ferdowsis classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history?beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles.
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Poems from the Straight Path
Poems from the Straight Path reflects, chronicles and tries to make sense of Joel Hayward's conversion to Islam after two decades as a fish-out-of-water Unitarian within trinitarian Christianity.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
|A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
|Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859 translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar's charming narrative poem, BIRD PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight:
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Conference of the Birds
|An award-winning author and illustrator offers a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the beloved Sufi poem
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Sweet Sorrows
For anyone interested in Sufism in particular, or mystical understanding in general, Attar’s works are indispensable. His influence on later giants, such as the mystic poet Jalaleddin Rumi, is well documented.
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