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The Faith and Practice of Al Ghazali

By: Al Ghazali and Watt, W Montgomery

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Oneworld: 2000

Seller ID: 16634

ISBN: 1851680624

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

Translated and with an Introduction by W Montgomery Watt. 176pp, illustrated softback covers. A very clean, tight, copy. The spiritual autobiography, and thoughts on the right conduct of life, of one of Islam's most influential early theologians and Sufi mystic who lived fron 1058 - 1111.
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Persian Poems An Anthology of Verse Translations

By: Arberry, A J (ed)

Price: £16.50

Publisher: Dent: 1954

Seller ID: 17038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Everyman edition, edited by A J Arberry. 239pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to the top of the spine. A couple of very small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally very clean. Includes Omar Khayyam, lyrics, odes, epics etc.
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Deutsch Persisches Worterbuch

By: Aryanpour, Amiraschraf and Sang, Asa and Mortazawi, Hadi and Aryanpour, Semira

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Kamangir Verlag: 1992

Seller ID: 16659

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

A German- Persian dictionary. A very heavy book of 1244pp, so heavy that the spine has cracked in two places and been repaired with tape. Dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. One page corner has been miscut by the printer, leading to a little loss, but othewise the book is complete and internally clean. Includes the loose leaf supplement. A suitable 'working copy' only of a rare book.
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Persian for Beginners Third Edition Pronunciation and Writing

By: Bashiri, Iraj

Price: £14.50

Publisher: Burgess Publishing Company: 1972

Seller ID: 16636

ISBN: 0808740563

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Large format. 111pp, soft covers with a little wear to the spine. Internally clean and tight. Pronuncing and writing Persian - the sounds, the writing system, the alphabet etc.
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A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism Based on the Ratanbai Katrak Lectures 1975

By: Boyce, Mary

Price: £138.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1977

Seller ID: 16572

ISBN: 019826531X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

284pp, complete illustrated dustjacket with a very little wear to the top corners. B + w photographs. A clean copy. An account of a year spent by the author in the Zoroastrian village of Sharifabad in Iran. A unique study of Zoroastrian life.
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The Cambridge History of Iran Vol 5 The Saljuq and Mongol Periods

By: Boyle, J A (ed)

Price: £72.00

Publisher: Cambridge: 1968

Seller ID: 16685

ISBN: 052106936X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A heavy book of 763p. Complete dustjacket, a little worn to the edges of the spine. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. This volume studies the period between the 11th and thirteenth centuries, the rise and decline of the Saljuqs, the Mongol invasion and the establishment of the Mongol regime.
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Contes Persanes En Langue Populaire Publies Avec Un Traduction et Des Notes

By: Christensen, Arthur

Price: £27.50

Publisher: Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri: 1918

Seller ID: 16577

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

130pp, bound in blue paper covered boards with cloth spine with paper title label. Previous owner's name to lower corner of title page, a light mark to one margin, not affecting the text, otherwise internally very clean. Text in French and Persian script. 53 stories, mainly told to the author by Sayyid Mu'allim circa 1914 .
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The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam from the Persian National Epic the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi

By: Clinton, Jerome W

Price: £12.50

Publisher: University of Washington Press: 1987

Seller ID: 16688

ISBN: 0295965827

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4190pp, illustrated soft covers, a very little rubbed to the corners. Introduction in English, and English verse translation and Persian text on facing pages. Internally clean and tight.
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Epic and Sedition The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

By: Davis, Dick

Price: £26.50

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press: 1992

Seller ID: 16690

ISBN: 155728251X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

222pp, complete illustrated dustjacket with acrease to the front turnover flap. Traces of a paperclip indent to the flyleaf, otherwsie internally very clean. The author argues that the great Persian epic poem Shahnameh is far more than a patrotic record of kingly deeds. Text and Notes in English, Appendix in Persian.
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Persian Sufi Poetry An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Poems

By: De Bruijn, J T P

Price: £19.50

Publisher: Curzon: 1997

Seller ID: 16691

ISBN: 0700703128

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

142pp, illustrated softback covers with a light crease to the spine. Internally clean and tight. A readable introduction to Persian Islamic Sufi poetry, including the development of of the tradition, the relation of Sufism and literature, and the four main genres - the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
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A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885 - 1886 The Safaarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani

By: Farahani, Mirza Mohammad Hosayn and Farmayan, Hafez and Elton, Daniel L

Price: £18.50

Publisher: University of Texas: 1990

Seller ID: 16579

ISBN: 0292776225

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

A large, heavy book of 380pp with illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to the corners.B + w illustrations and maps. Internally clean and tight. A memoir of the pilgrimage to Mecca with a wealth of social and economic observation by a well educated observant Iranian gentleman, edited translated and annotated by Hafez Farmayan and Elton L Daniel.
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Muslim Saints and Mystics Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya Memorial of the Saints By Farid al Din Attar

By: Farid al-Din Attar and Arberry, A J

Price: £46.50

Publisher: Malaysia, Thinker's Library: 1996

Seller ID: 16583

ISBN: 9676900966

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Translated by A J Arberry. 287pp, laminated hard covers. A very clean copy. The Tahkirat al-Auliya tells the life stories of 96 Sufi Masters, illustrating their wisdom and teaching.
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Einfuhrung in Die Persische Palaographie 101 Persiche Dokumente Aus Dem Nachlass Des Verfassers Herausgegeben Von G Hazai

By: Fekete, L

Price: £124.50

Publisher: Budapest, Akademiai Kiado: 1977

Seller ID: 16639

ISBN: 9630501236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Text in German. A large, heavy book of 594pp plus 242 b + w photographs of the documents. Red cloth covered boards. Dustjacket with a little wear to the top edge, which has clear tape strengthening. Internally very clean.
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The Cambridge History of Iran Vol 1 The Land of Iran

By: Fisher, W B

Price: £72.00

Publisher: Cambridge: 1968

Seller ID: 16683

ISBN: 0521069351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A heavy book of 784p. Complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to the corners.Fold out map, b + w photographs, and illustrations in the text. Internally very clean. The first volume of eight, this volume sets the scene - the geography, geology, anthropology, economic life, flora and fauna of Persia, shaping human activity.
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Selected Sonnets from the Divan of Hafez

By: Hafez

Price: £14.50

Publisher: Tehran, Eghbal: 1985

Seller ID: 16668

ISBN: 0934211043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Laminated illustrated boards, a little rubbed to the corners of the spine. Preface by Farshid Eghbal. Text of the sonnets in Persian and in the 1897 English translation of Gertrude Bell. Cover miniature and illustrations by Ustad Khosh-nevis-zadeh and inside minaitures by Ali Nasajpor. Calligraphy by Hosein Khosravi. A clean copy of an attractive edition from Tehran.
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Hafez Dance of Life

By: Hafez and Boylan, Michael and Clarke, Wilberforce

Price: £34.50

Publisher: Mage: 1988

Seller ID: 16539

ISBN: 0934211043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Square format. 107pp, beige cloth covered boards. Illustrated dustjacket with some wear to the edges. Colour illustrations. Internally clean. The verse translations are by Michael Boylan and the prose translations by H W Clarke. Newly calligraphed Qazvini/Ghani text by Amir Hossein Tabnak.
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Diwan E Hafiz Divan

By: Hafiz and Ahmad, Nazir and Na'ini, S M Reza Jalali

Price: £46.50

Publisher: Teheran, 1983

Seller ID: 16662

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The Divan of Hafiz, edited by Nazir Ahmad and S M Reza Jalali Na'ini. Text entirely in Persian. A very large, heavy book in yellow cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Said on a card found in the book to be based on a manuscript of AD 1421, containing 435 ghazals. A rare book.
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Unity in the Ghazals of Hafez

By: Hillmann, Michael C

Price: £28.50

Publisher: Bibliotheca Islamica: 1976

Seller ID: 16681

ISBN: 0882970100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

181pp, grey cloth covered boards with gilt title, the corners a little rubbed. Text in English, with the poems in Persian and western script. Internally clean. A study of the ghazal poems of the great Persian lyric poet Hafez, with 16 studied in detail.
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The Book of Wisdom Intimate Conversations

By: Ibn 'Ata'illah and Kwaja Abdullah Ansari

Price: £15.50

Publisher: Paulist Press: 1978

Seller ID: 16578

ISBN: 0809121824

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Part of the Classics of Western Spirituality series, with a Preface by Annemarie Schimmel. Introduction, translation and Notes of the Book of Wisdom by Victor Danner and of Intimate Conversations by Wheeler M Thackston. 233pp, illustrated softback covers with one crease to the back corner. A clean, tight copy. The author of the Book of Wisdom was a Sufi saint of 13th century Egypt. Ansari is one of the major writers of Persian mystical literature.
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Isfahan Is Half The World Memories of a Persian Boyhood

By: Jamalzadeh, Sayyed Mohammad Ali and Heston, W L

Price: £22.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 16707

ISBN: 0691065632

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

298pp, complete dustjacket with a very little rubbing. B + w illustrations and map. Internally very clean. An account of growing up in a traditional Islamic Iranian society, before westernization, by the author acclaimed as the father of the modern Persian short story.
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Category: Persia