The Mystic Rose Garden (Gulshan i Raz) by Mahmud Shabistari
The Gulshan i Raz is a collection of poems written in 1317 A.D. (717 A.H.) by Shaykh Sa’ad Al-Din Mahmud Shabistari in the mathnawi form. It is considered to be one of the greatest Persian works of Sufism. The poem is in response to a series of fifteen questions on Sufism asked of Shabistari by the scholar Rukh Al-Din Amir Husayn Harawi.
The Garden of Fragrance (Bustan) of Sadi
The Bustan is a book of poetry by the the great Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi. Written in the mathnawi style it was completed in 1257.
Layla – by Shaykh Ahmad Al-‘Alawi
A poem by Shaykh Ahmad al-‘Alawi
The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, E. H. Whinfield, and J. B. Nicolas
The Persian Mystics – Jami
By F. Hadland Davis
Salaman & Absal
by Abd Ar-Rahman Jami
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
The Divan of Hafiz – English-Persian,
Translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell