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Sa’di, excerpt on p. 253 from “The Cause for Composing the Gulistan” and excerpt on p. 229 from “The Manners of Kings” from
The Rose Garden of Sa’di
(or
The Gulistan
), translated by Edward Rehatsek (Kama Shastra Society, Benares, 1888).
Hafiz, excerpt on p. 292 from XXXVII from
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: William Heinemann, 1897).
Excerpts on pp. 315 and 343 from “The Reign of Yazdegerd,” “The Reign of Hormozd,” from
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, foreword by Azar Nafisi, translated by Dick Davis, copyright © 1997, 2000, 2004 by Mage Publishers, Inc. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Rumi, excerpt on pp. 372–3 from “Weave Not, Like Spiders, Nets from Grief’s Saliva” from
Look! This Is Love: Poems of Rumi,
translated by Annemarie Schimmel, © 1991 by Annemarie Schimmel. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA.
www.shambhala.com
.