گزیده تذکره الاولیاء الفارسية 1447

Tadhkirat al-Awliyāʾ is a collection of the lives, sayings, and spiritual states of the great mystics of the early Islamic centuries. With its subtle mystical meanings and warm, rhythmic prose, this work has long been cherished by readers of refined taste.
The present volume is a selected edition of Tadhkirat al-Awliyāʾ, designed to make the study of ʿAṭṭār’s masterpiece more accessible by offering concise explanations of difficult expressions and technical Sufi terms.

From the editor’s preface:
Although Tadhkirat al-Awliyāʾ is not a historical document in the strict sense, it remains a vivid page from the cultural history of Iran—
a history left unwritten by the chroniclers of conquering powers.
It tells the story of a people who, when afflicted by enemies or the reckless, made poetry blossom from suffering;
a land that, when it welcomed Tatars and Mongols into the embrace of its culture, transformed them into sages and mystics.