Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Farid ud-Din Attar, Conference of the 

Birds. Translated by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis 

(London: Penguin Books, 1984); Carl W. Ernst, The 

Shambhala Guide to Sufism (Boston: Shambhala Pub-

lications, 1997); Reuben Levy, An Introduction to Per-

sian Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 

1969); Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One. Trans-

lated by Jawid Mojaddedi (Oxford: Oxford University 

Press, 2004); Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimen-

sions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina 

Press, 1975); Marianna Shreve Simpson, Persian Poetry, 

Painting and Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth-Cen-

tury Masterpiece (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Insti-

tution, 1998); Ehsan Yarshater, ed., Persian Literature

(Albany, N.Y.: Bibliotheca Persica, 1988).

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ndonesia

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kuttab

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madrasa

.

pets

  See 

animals

.

petroleum

  See 

oil

.