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Islam

Quran, hadith handling, tafsir, Sufi writings, Iblis traditions, prophets, law, and eschatology.

Arabia / Global7th century CE8 readable texts9 indexed sources
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Quran

IslamAccepted Scripture

The Quran indexed for search, comparison, source-language review, and Deep Thought context using Rodwell English, George Sale English, and Tanzil Uthmani Arabic versions.

Arabic· 7th century CE

The Table-Talk of Muhammad

IslamScripture Selection

The Table-Talk of Muhammad is indexed from the public-domain 1882 edition for prophetic sayings on mercy, prayer, charity, fasting, work, judgment, household ethics, government, death, destiny, and resurrection.

Arabic source tradition rendered through English· Hadith traditions compiled from early Islamic transmission; 1882 public-domain English selection

Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali

IslamMystical / Esoteric

Al-Ghazzali's religious and moral teachings are indexed for the nature of humanity, heart, spirit, nafs, freedom, responsibility, knowledge, worship, and Sufi moral discipline.

Arabic source tradition rendered through English· 11th-12th century Islamic source material; 1921 public-domain English rendering

The Confessions of Al Ghazzali

IslamMystical / Esoteric

The Confessions of Al Ghazzali is indexed for the search for truth, theology, philosophy, inspiration, certainty, prophecy, Sufi knowledge, and the limits of scholastic argument.

Arabic· 11th-12th century Islamic source material; 1909 public-domain English translation

The Mystics of Islam

IslamScholarly Reconstruction

Nicholson's Mystics of Islam is indexed for the Sufi path, repentance, illumination, ecstasy, gnosis, divine love, saints, miracles, and union with Reality.

English study drawing on Arabic and Persian Sufi sources· 1914 public-domain study of Islamic mysticism

The Mesnevi, Book One

IslamMystical / Esoteric

Rumi's Mesnevi Book One is indexed for the reed-flute proem, love, soul, discipline, parable, divine mercy, prophecy, spiritual poverty, and Sufi teaching stories.

Persian· 13th century Persian Sufi poem; 1881 public-domain English translation

The Gulistan of Sa'di (Selections)

IslamMystical / Esoteric

Sa'di's Rose Garden is a 13th-century collection of moral tales, maxims, and Sufi-influenced wisdom. This selection indexes the public-domain English text preserved by Project Gutenberg.

Persian· 1258 CE

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (FitzGerald)

IslamMystical / Esoteric

The quatrains of the Persian astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam in Edward FitzGerald's famous English rendering, given here in both the First (1859) and Fifth (1889) editions. Long read both as skeptical carpe-diem poetry and, by Sufi-inclined readers, as mystical allegory.

Persian· Quatrains c. 1100-1200 CE; FitzGerald's versions 1859-1889
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Quran

scripture7th century CEArabic
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public-domain Rodwell and George Sale English translations loaded; Tanzil Uthmani Arabic text version 1.1 loaded under Tanzil terms / CC BY 3.0

Rodwell English, George Sale English, and Tanzil Uthmani Arabic are indexed. The Arabic text is stored as a source-language version by sura and ayah; preserve it verbatim and keep Tanzil attribution/link-back visible in metadata.

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The Table-Talk of Muhammad

hadith selections / prophetic sayingsearly Islamic tradition; 1882 English selectionArabic source tradition rendered through English
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Stanley Lane-Poole English selection loaded

Indexed sayings from the Table-Talk section of the 1882 Mohammad-spelled edition for mercy, prayer, charity, fasting, work, judgment, household ethics, government, death, destiny, and resurrection. This is a selected public-domain English source, not a full named hadith collection.

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Named hadith collections

tradition reports8th-10th century CE compilationArabic
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translation rights vary by collection

The site now includes a public-domain sayings selection; full named collections such as Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah still need display-safe translation handling.

Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali

Islamic ethics / Sufi theology11th-12th century source material; 1921 English renderingArabic source tradition rendered through English
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Syed Nawab Ali English rendering loaded

Indexed extracts from Ihya-u-Ulum-id-din for heart, spirit, nafs, freedom, responsibility, knowledge, worship, and Sufi moral discipline.

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The Confessions of Al Ghazzali

Islamic theological autobiography11th-12th century source material; 1909 English translationArabic
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Claud Field English translation loaded

Indexed for search for truth, theology, philosophy, inspiration, certainty, prophecy, Sufi knowledge, and scholastic argument.

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The Mystics of Islam

Sufi source study1914 public-domain studyEnglish study drawing on Arabic and Persian Sufi sources
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Reynold A. Nicholson study loaded

Indexed for the Sufi path, repentance, illumination, ecstasy, gnosis, divine love, saints, miracles, and union with Reality.

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The Mesnevi, Book One

Sufi poetic text13th century Persian Sufi poem; 1881 English translationPersian
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Project Gutenberg public-domain James W. Redhouse English translation loaded

Indexed for the reed-flute proem, love, soul, discipline, parable, divine mercy, prophecy, spiritual poverty, and Sufi teaching stories.

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The Gulistan of Sa'di selections

Persian wisdom literature13th century Persian source; public-domain English anthology textPersian
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Project Gutenberg public-domain anthology text loaded

Indexed selected Gulistan anecdotes and maxims for moral wisdom, dervish teaching, kingship, contentment, soul, mortality, and Sufi-influenced Persian literature.

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Tafsir and broader Sufi texts

commentary / mystical textsmedieval onward
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Questions this area should answer
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