The Persian Language

• Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724). Imperii Persici in omnes suas provincias nova tabula geographica (Map of the Persian Empire and All Its Provinces). Nuremberg: Io. Baptista Homann, ca. 1724. Hand-colored engraved map. Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress

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Writing Systems and Scripts

• Bakhtiyari History. Tehran, 1909. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
• Pūr Davūd’s The Hymns of The Holy Gathas. Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1927. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
• Verses by Baba Tahir. Calligraphy sheet, Iran, sixteenth–seventeenth centuries. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
• نسخۀ باز تولید شده منشور کوروش (Modern replica of the “Cyrus Cylinder”), 2010, original, 539–530 BCE. Resin. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)

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The Epic of Shahnameh

• Ferdowsi. منتخب شاهنامۀ ابو القاسم فردوسى (Selections from the Shahnameh). Manuscript copied in Iran, 1618. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
• Ferdowsi. شاهنامۀ ابو القاسم فردوسى (Shahnameh). Manuscript copied in India, late-seventeenth century–early-eighteenth century. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
• Ferdowsi. شاهنامۀ حکيم ابو القاسم فردوسى طوسى (Shahnameh). Bombay, 1913. Gift of the Mehrizi Family. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress. (003.00.00)

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Religion

• Pūr Davūd. سرود‌هاى مقدس گاتها (The Hymns of The Holy Gathas). Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1927. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
• کتاب مزامير حضرت داويد (The Psalms of David). Mahdī Bahman, calligrapher. Tehran, 2000. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
• Ewangeliyon (The Assyrian Gospel). Urmia, Iran, late eighteenth century. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00, 007.00.01, 007.00.02)
• قرآن کريم (Qurʼān). Manuscript. Sultaniyah, Iran, 1739. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00, 008.00.01)
• اذان صبح‏ (Call to Morning Prayer). Iran, seventeenth century. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
• Aḥmad Jān Khān Alkūzāī and Gul Muḥammad. اساس القضات (The Sources of Jurisprudence). Kabul: Royal Kabul Publishing House, 1893. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
• Mīr ‘Alī Ḥusaynī Haravī. رسالۀ عرفانى (Sufi Treatise). Mashhad or Herat, Iran-Afghanistan, March 1520. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
• Sayyid Ja‘far Abu. تحفة الملوك فى السير و السلوک (The Gift of the Kings and Their Practices). Tabriz, Iran: Nasiri Publishing House, 1856–1857. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
• Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī. درة التاج ( The Jewel in the Crown). Iran, 1831. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
• Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. دعاى صنمي قريش از امير المؤمنين (Shi`ite Prayer Manual). Abū al-Qāsim Shīrāzī, scribe. Tabriz, 1809. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00, 014.00.01)
• Bahá‘u‘lláh. ‏آيات الهى : ‏گلچينى از آثار حضرت بهاء الله براى تلاوت در هر صبح و شب‏ (Heavenly Verses: Selected works by Bahá‘u‘lláh). Hofheim, Germany: German Center for Baha’i Media, 1996. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)

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Science and Technology

• Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazvīnī. عجايب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات (Marvels of Creation and Oddities of Existence). Persia, 1565. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
• Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazvīnī. عجايب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات (Marvels of Creation and Oddities of Existence). Persia, 1565. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (016.00.01)
• James Skinner. کتاب  تشريح الاقوام (Book of Indian Castes and Kinsfolk). India, 1825. Manuscript. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00, 20.00.01)
• Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad and Gul Muḥammad Khān Muḥammadzāī. کتاب عمل الصالحين (Book of Effects [Medicinal Plants]). Kabul, 1898. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
• ‘Abd al-Sabur Mirzā Muhammad.‏ تشريح البشر و توضيح الصور (Pictorial Explanation of Human Anatomy). Tabriz, Iran, 1855–1856. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
• Muhammad Hasan-Khān. مرآة البلدان ناصرى (Mirror of the Lands, A Geographic Survey of Persian Lands). Volume 1. Tehran: Nasiri Publishing House, 1877. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)

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History

• Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. ترجمۀ تاريخ طبرى از بلعمى (Bal’ami’s Persian Translation of The History Tabari). Persia, fourteenth century. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
• Muḥammad Amīn ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī. پادشاهنامه یا شاهجهان نامه (The Book of the King or The Book of Shah Jahan). India, 1825. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00, 025.00.01)
• Fursat Shīrāzī. ‏ ‏آثار عجم (The Monuments of Ancient Persia). Bombay, India: Nâderi, 1933–1934. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
• Muḥammad Yūsuf Riyāz̤ī Haravī. کتاب بحر الفوائد: کليات رياضى (The Sea of Benefits). Bombay, India or Mashhad, Iran: Agha Muhammad-Ja‘far Shushtari, Mirza Muhammad “Malik al-Kuttab,” 1906. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
• Muẓaffar al-Dīn Shāh. قاجار شاه الدین مظفر سفرنامۀ دومین (The Second Travelogue of Muẓaffar al- Dīn, King of the Qajar Dynasty). Tehran: Royal Printing Press, 1903. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
• Amīr Sayyid ‘Ālam Khān. حزن الملل تاريخ بخارا (The Anguish of Nations, History of Bukhārā). Paris: Mazennau Brothers Press, 1921. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)

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Literature

Classical Persian Poetry

• S. Fattoev, J. Sharifov, and S. Vorob‘eva. رودکی : کتاب مصور (Rūdakī: A Pictorial Book). Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Irfon, 2008. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
• Omar Khayyam. Rubáiyát. Translated by Edward FitzGerald with illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: Heritage Press, ca. 1946. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00). Reproduced with the cooperation of The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, California www.szyk.org
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. مثنوى معنوى (Spiritual Couplets). Persia, 1441, copied by Salāh al Dīn Mīr Shāh. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
• Shams al-Dīn Muhammad Hāfiz-i Shīrāzī. ديوان حافظ (Anthology of Hāfiz). Persia, 1685. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (030.00.00, 030.00.01)
• Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī. كليات سعدى شيرازى (The Complete Works of Sa‘dī-i Shīrāzī). Persia, eighteenth century. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
• Nūr al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī. يوسف و زليخا از هفت اورنگ (“Yūsuf and Zulaykhā” from Haft Awrang). Central Asia, 1583. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
• Muḥammad Ahlī-yi Shīrāzī. کتاب سحر حلال (Licit Magic). Manuscript. Persia, 1545. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
• Khan Sahib M. Shirazi. کتاب كليات سنائى غزنوى (The Complete Works of Sanā‘ī Ghaznavī). Bombay: Burgess Press, 1910. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
• Niẓāmī Ganjavī. پنج گنج ‏یا خمسۀ نظامى گنجه‌اى (The Quinary of Niẓāmī Ganjavī). Kashmir, India, 1835. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00, 35.00.01)

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Eighteenth and Ninteenth Century Literature

• Lacquer book cover. Nineteenth-century Qajar Era. Kirkor Minassian Collection, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00, 036.01.00)
• Ghulām Muḥammad Ṭarzī. ديوان طرزى (The Anthology of Ṭarzī). ‘Abd al-Laṭīf Khān, scribe. Kabul, 1914. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
• Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. قصائد و مثنويات غالب (The Persian Poems of Ghalib). Delhi, India: Aligarh Muslim University, 1969. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00)
• Sir Muḥammad Iqbāl. زبور عجم (Persian Psalms). Lucknow, India: Lucknow Central Publishing House, 1944. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
• ‘Alī Dihbāshī. سیری در آثارو زندگی ایرج میرزا (A Look at the Life and Writings of Īraj Mīrzā). Tehran: Nashr-i Akhtaran, 2008. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
• Sadriddin Aĭnī. آدینه (Odina). Dushanbe, Tajikstan: Tajik National Publishing House, 1960. (Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00)
• Muhammad Huquqi, ed. شعر نیما از آغاز تا امروز (The Poems of Nima Yushij from Their Beginning to the Present). Tehran: Nigah Publisher, 2012. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (042.00.00)
• Sūsan Aṣīlī Nāmah, ed. نامه های جمالزاده در کتابخانه مرکزی تهران (The Letters of Jamālzādah in the Central Tehran University Library). Tehran: Gulrang-i Yikta, 2008. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00)
• Muḥammad Hāshim Umīdvār Harātī, ed. دیوان خلیلی : قصايد، غزليات، مثنويات، ‏رباعيات (The Anthology of Khalīlī). Tehran, 1962. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
• Selections of Classical Persian Poetry. Iran, late eighteenth–early nineteenth century. Manuscript. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00)

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Women Writers

• سورة النساء (Chapter of the Women). Illuminated page from a Qurʼān manuscript, ca. 1250–1350. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (079.00.00)
• Ghulām Ḥabīb Navābī. رابعه بلخی (Rābi‘ah-‘i Balkhī). Kabul: Ministry of Information and Culture of Afghanistan, 1951. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
• Zeb-un-Nissa. صد ویک غزل (A Hundred and One Ghazals [Odes]). Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Irfon Publishers, 2010. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)
• Amin Banani. طاهره قرة العين (Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry: Selected Poems of Qurrat al-‘Ayn). Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2004. General Collections, Library of Congress (058.00.00)
• ‘Āyisha Durrānī. دیوان عایشه (Collected Poems of ‘Āyisha Durrānī). Kabul: Bā bayārī-i Maṭbaʻ-i Sarkārī-i shahr-i Kābul-i gulgul bishkuft, 1881. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
• Fāṭimah Jahāngard. دیوان پروین اعتصامی (The Anthology of Parvīn Etesami). Kerman, Iran: Khadamate Farhangiye Kerman, 2002. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)
• ‘Alī Dihbāshī, ed. بر ساحل جزیره سرگردانی (On the Shores of The Island of Wondering). Tehran: Sukhan, 2004. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (065.00.00)
• Sīmīn Behbahani. جای پا (Footprint). Tehran: Negah, 1956. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
• Furūgh Farrukhzād. تولدی دیگر (Another Birth). Tehran: Murvarid Press, 1963. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
• Shahrnūsh Pārsī‘pūr. مردان در برابر زنان (Men against Women). Tehran: Shirin, 2005. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
• Gulrukhsor Safi. شعله در سنگ (Flames from the Stone). Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Adib, 2011. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (063.00.00)
• Zuyā Pirzād. سه کتاب (Three Books). Tehran, Iran: Nashir‑i Markaz, 2003. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)

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Modern and Contemporary Literature

• Ṣādiq Hidāyat. بوف کور (The Blind Owl). Tehran: Amir Kabir Publishers, 1952, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00)
• Aḥmad Shāmlū. هوای تازه (Fresh Air). Tehran: Nigah Publishing House, 2009. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (047.00.00)
• Ṣādiq Chūbak. چراغ آخر (The Last Alms). Tehran: Javidān Ilmi Printing House, 1966. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00)
• Ṣamad Bihrangī. قصه‌هاى بهرنگ (The Stories of Bihrangī). Tehran: Nashr-i Sarāyish, 2005. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00)
• Suhrāb Sepehri. هشت کتاب (Eight Books). Tehran, Iran: Payk-i Iran, 2010. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (049.00.00)
• Loiq Sheralī. كليات (The Complete Works of Loiq Sheralī). Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Adib, 2008. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00)
• Jalāl Al Aḥmad. نفرین زمین (The Cursing of the Land). Tehran: Ghazal Publishing House 2008, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00)
• Mahdī Akhavān S̲ālis̲. از این اوستا (From This Avesta). Tehran: Zimistan Publishing House, 2010. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00)
• Maḥmūd Dawlat‘ābādī. قطره محال اندیش (A Drop of the Unthinkable). Tehran: Chishmah Publication House, 2004. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00)
• Īraj Pezeshkzad. دائی جان ناپلئون (My Uncle Napoleon). Tehran: Shabakah Yik, Sida va Sima, 1952. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00)
• Muḥammad Āṣif Sulṭān‘zādah. نوروز فقط در کابل باصفاست (Nowruz is Not the Same Away from Kabul). Tehran: Markaz-i Nashr-i Danishgahi, 2003. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (075.00.00)

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Storytelling and Children's Literature

• Saif al-Shu‘ara. هزار داستان (A Thousand and One Nights). Tehran: Rukn al-Mulk, 1899. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00)
• ‘Ubayd Zākānī. رساله دلگشا (Joyous Treatise). Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Adib, 1991. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00)
• Parvīn Pizhvāk. ماجراهای آرش (The Adventures of Arash). Kabul: Intishārāt-i Huzhabir, 2006. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (069.00.00)
• Ramak Niktalab. سفرهای دارا و سارا در ایران (The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran). Tehran: Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Youth, 2005. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (070.00.00)
• Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New York: Random House, 2003. Private Collection (071.00.00)
• Maḥmūd Azad. زال و سیمرغ  (Zal and the Phoenix). Tehran: Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Youth, 1972. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (072.00.00)
• Loris Tjeknavorian. باله ی سیمرغ (Suite from the Ballet Simorgh). Album cover. London: Unicorn, 1975. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Library of Congress (074.00.00)
• Ferdowsi. Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, illustrated Hamid Rahmanian, translated Ahmid Sadri. New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2013. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (073.00.00) © Hamid Rahmanian

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