The Dialogue of The Gulshan-I-Raz or Mystical Garden of Roses of Mahmoud Shabistari with the Introduction to the Diwan of Be-Dil and selections from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated from the Persian by Johnson Pasha

Mahmoud Mahmud Ibn Abd Al-Karim Shabistari [Shabestari]; Be-Dil; Omar Khayyam; Johnson Pasha, translator

Published by John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville St., Dublin, 1908

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145 pp., publisher's green cloth stamped gilt with Persian/English. Matte deep midnight blue endpapers, with bookplate of Josephine Haltom Leckie. Three domestic holdings, four internationally. Pencil notations at quatrains. The Gulshan I Raz is a collection of poems written in the 14th century [1311], considered to be one of the greatest classical Persian works of the Islamic mystical tradition known in the west as Sufism. The poems are mostly based on Irfan, Islam, Sufism and sciences dependent on them. Considered to be written in response to seventeen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics posed to "the Sufi literati of Tabriz" by Rukh Al Din Amir Husayn Harawi .

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• Title: The Dialogue of The Gulshan-I-Raz or Mystical Garden of Roses of Mahmoud Shabistari with the Introduction to the Diwan of Be-Dil and selections from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated from the Persian by Johnson Pasha
• Publisher: John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville St., Dublin
• Publication Date: 1908
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Very good
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  • Poetry