Product Description: Treasury of the Mysteries NIZAMI Translation & Introduction Paul Smith “The Makhzanol Asrar (Treasury of the Mysteries), the most beautiful mystic poem in the Persian language, has both perfection of language and grandeur of thought...read more

Product Description: THE NIZAMI BOOK The Treasury of Mysteries and Layla and Majnun Nizami (d. 1208) is a true Sufi Master Poet who is most famous for his six books in masnavi form: The Treasury of Mysteries, Layla and Majnun, Khrosrau and Shirin, The Seven Portraits and his two books on Alexander...read more

Product Description: The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God...read more