Ball and Polo Stick or The Book of EcstasyBy Arifi of Herat by Hossein Ziai (1944-2011), Wheeler Thackston 0 Reviews Little is known of the poet ‘Arifi of Herat (d. 1449), but his book The Ball and Polo Stick has been popular since its composition in A.H. 842 (A.D. 1438-39) at the height of Timurid power. The underlying theme of this work is self-sacrificing love, a... $15.00
Book of TravelsA parallel Persian-English Text. [Fourth Printing, 2013] by Wheeler Thackston 0 Reviews Nasir-i Khusraw, well known for his philosophical works and ranked as one of the great poets of Persian, made a seven-year-long journey that began in his native Marv in the spring of 1046 and ended at Balkh in the fall of 1052. The impetus for leaving behind... $35.00
Philosophical Allegories and Mystical TreatisesBy Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi by Wheeler Thackston 0 Reviews Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (Sohravardi in Persian), known as maqtul (killed) because he was executed in Aleppo in 1191, is a figure of major importance in the development of Iranian and Islamic philosophical mysticism. In this volume, nine of his short symbolic... $30.00
Three Memoirs of HomayunGulbadan Begim’s Humáyunnáma; Jawhar Áftábachí's Tadhkiratu’l-wáqíát; Báyazid Bayát’s Táríkh-i Humáyún. by Wheeler Thackston 0 Reviews This volume forms number eleven in the Intellectual Traditions Series, a series aimed at providing scholars and students of Iranian Islamic heritage with new source materials. With this publication we extend the geographical horizons of the series to include... $85.00