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The Enclosed Garden of Truth

work by Sanāʾī

Also known as: “Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah wa sharīʿat al-ṭariqah”

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…was translated in English as The Enclosed Garden of Truth (1910).
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In Islamic arts: The mystical poem
…first mystical epic, the didactic Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqat wa sharīʿat al-ṭariqah (“The Garden of Truth and the Law of the Path”), which has some 10,000 verses. In this lengthy and rather dry poem, the pattern for all later mystical mas̄navīs is established: wisdom is embodied in stories and anecdotes; parables and…
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