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Contents

List of Reprinted Works

Note on Transliteration

List of Contributors

General Introduction S.H. Nasr

1. Umm al-kitāb

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Mother of Books (from Umm al-kitāb)

2. Jābir ibn Hayyān

Introduction S.H. Nasr

The Book of Stones (from Kitāb al-ahjār)

3. Abū Ya'qūb Sijistāni

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Kashf al-mahjub: Introduction to the Translation -- Hermann Landolt

Unveiling of the Hidden (from Kashf al-mahjūb)

The Book of Wellsprings (from Kitāb al-yanābī)

4. Abū Hātim Rāzī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Science of Prophecy (from A'lām al-nubuwwah)

5. Hamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Repose of the Intellect (from Rāhat al-'aql)

The Brilliant Epistle (from Risālat al-durriyyah)

6. Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Safā' - Treatises of the Brethren of Purity

Introduction S.H. Nasr

Microcosm and Macrocosm

A Theory on Numbers

Man and the Animals

7. al-Mu'yyad fi'l-Dīn Shīrāzī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

The Sum of the Two Wisdoms (from J

Sermons (from Khutbah)

8. Nāsir-i Khusraw

Introduction S.H. Nasr

The Sum of the Two Wisdoms (from Jāmi' al-hikmatayn)

Knowledge and Liberation (from Gushāyish wa rahāyish)

Philosophical Poetry (from Dīwān)

9. Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī

Introduction M. Aminrazavi

Contemplation and Action (from Sayr wa sulūk)

The Garden of Submission, or Notions (from Rawda-yi taslīm or Tasawwurāt)

Selected Bibliography

Index