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Published by John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville St., Dublin, 1908
Seller: Little Sages Books, ABAA/ILAB, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Thus. 145 pp., publisher's green cloth stamped gilt with Persian/English. Matte deep midnight blue endpapers, with bookplate of Josephine Haltom Leckie. Three domestic holdings, four internationally. Pencil notations at quatrains. The Gulshan I Raz is a collection of poems written in the 14th century [1311], considered to be one of the greatest classical Persian works of the Islamic mystical tradition known in the west as Sufism. The poems are mostly based on Irfan, Islam, Sufism and sciences dependent on them. Considered to be written in response to seventeen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics posed to "the Sufi literati of Tabriz" by Rukh Al Din Amir Husayn Harawi .