A page from a manuscript of the \u201cShahnameh,\u201d the Persian \u201cBook of Kings\u201d
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Since my request, made a few days ago, for suggestions of topics that I should cover during today\u2019s FreedomFest 2019 lecture in Las Vegas (\u201cBuilding Zion: Mormon Pioneers and Religion in the American West\u201d) was so usefully productive, I thought that I might pose a more difficult, obscure, and demanding task for readers. \u00a0One good thing: \u00a0I\u2019m not under so tight a deadline for this one.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m tinkering with a book manuscript for which the working title is Ten Muslim Classics<\/em>. \u00a0(I may or may not expand it eventually to Twelve Muslim Classics<\/em>.) \u00a0The books that I currently intend to introduce to readers are the following, with the specific editions or translations to which I\u2019ll be referring:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Al-Ghazali\u2019s Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal)<\/em>, R.J. McCarthy (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10: 1887752307 or ISBN-13: 978-1887752305<\/p>\n
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Attar, Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)<\/em>, Afkham Darbandi (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10: 0140444343 or ISBN-13: 978-0140444346<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nArabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)<\/em>, Muhsin Mahdi (ed.), Hussain Hadawy (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10: 0393331660 or ISBN-13: 978-0393331660<\/p>\n
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Spiritual Verses <\/em>(Penguin Classics), Alan Williams (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10: 0140447911 or ISBN-13: 978-0140447910<\/p>\n
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Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna<\/em>, Vol 1, Fables of Friendship and Betrayal from the Panchatantra, Jatakas, Bidpai, Kalila and Dimnah and Lights of Canopus<\/em><\/p>\nI\u2019m using the Kindle edition:\u00a0ISBN-10: 0863566618 or ISBN-13: 978-0863566615<\/p>\n
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Nizami, The Story of Layla and Majnun<\/em>,\u00a0Rudolf Gelpke (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10:\u00a00930872525 or ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0930872526<\/p>\n
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Ferdowsi, The Shahnameh: \u00a0The Persian Book of Kings<\/em>, Dick Davis (trans.)<\/p>\nISBN-10:\u00a00143104934 or ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0143104933<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nRubaiyat <\/em>translated by Edward Fitzgerald \u2013 widely available in many editions.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
al-Ghazali,\u00a0The Incoherence of the Philosophers<\/em>, 2nd Edition, Michael E. Marmura (trans.)<\/span><\/p>\nISBN-10:\u00a00842524665 or\u00a0ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0842524667<\/p>\n
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Ibn Rushd (Averro\u00ebs),\u00a0
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