Gulshan-i Rāz

An authoritative new edition and translation, with commentary, of one of the masterpieces of Persian Sufi poetry. The Gulshan-i Rāz , by Mahmud Shabistarī (1288–1340), is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Persian Sufi poetry and philosophy. This new edition, by the renowned scholar of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr, not only includes a translation of the poem, it also establishes a new, authoritative edition of the Persian text and provides extensive commentary on the poem and its place in the Isla