Attar
Asrar-nama (The Book of Secrets)
Written work
Asrar-nama (The Book of Secrets)
اسرارنامه (Asrar-nama)
A masnavi without a frame story, in twenty-two discourses (*maqalat*), each developing an idea through short anecdotes. No other work of Attar's sets out so forcefully the gnostic conception of the soul's fall and the duty to free it from worldly bonds; hence its long reflections on the transience and vanity of earthly things, and the chapter on celestial secrets that gives it its title. Its supposed influence on the prologue of Rumi's *Masnavi* gave rise to the legend that Attar gave a copy to the young Rumi.
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Authorship note
Authentic: Attar lists it among his works in the prefaces to the *Mukhtar-nama* and the *Khusraw-nama*. It is probably the earliest of his mystical masnavis.
Editions and translations
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Persa · فارسی
Attar
Asrar-nama
The Conscious LibraryAsrar-nama
Chap-e Sharq, 1959
Translation: Sadeq Gowharin (ed.)
Français
Attar
Le Livre des secrets (Asrār-Nāma)
The Conscious LibraryLe Livre des secrets (Asrār-Nāma)
Les Deux Océans, 1985
Translation: Christiane Tortel
ISBN 9782866810122
Other works by Attar
- Mantiq al-tayr (The Conference of the Birds) · 1177
- Ilahi-nama (The Book of God)
- Musibat-nama (The Book of Affliction)
- Tadhkirat al-awliya (Memorial of God's Friends)
- Divan
- Mukhtar-nama (The Book of Selections)
- Khusraw-nama (Gol and Hormoz)
- Mi'raj-nama (Book of the Ascension)
- Jumjuma-nama (Book of the Skull)
- Jawahir-nama (Book of Jewels)
- Sharh al-qalb (Commentary on the Heart)
- Kashf al-asrar and Ma'rifat al-nafs
- Pand-nama (Book of Counsel)
- Bulbul-nama (Book of the Nightingale)
- Jawhar al-dhat (The Essence of Essence)
- Ushtur-nama (Book of the Camel)
- Haylaj-nama
- Mansur-nama
- Bisar-nama (Book of the Headless)
- Mazhar al-aja'ib (Manifestation of Wonders)
- Lisan al-ghayb (The Tongue of the Unseen)
- Waslat-nama (Book of Union)
- Khayyat-nama (Book of the Tailor)
- Kanz al-asrar (The Treasure of Secrets)
- Miftah al-futuh (The Key of Openings)
- Wasiyat-nama (Book of the Testament)
- Kanz al-haqa'iq (The Treasure of Truths)
- Other ascribed works (Si fasl, Bayan al-irshad, Nuzhat al-ahbab, Mazhar al-dhat)
Sources
- Reinert, Bernd. «ʿAṭṭār, Farīd-al-Dīn». Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. III, fasc. 1, pp. 20–25. Publicado el 15-12-1987.
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