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• Author(s): Procopius | H. B. Dewing • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics"The last major ancient historian, Byzantine scholar PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA (c. 500 565) traveled with the army of Eastern Roman Emperor Justini...

• Author(s): Sheikh Muslih-Uddin Sa'di Shirazi | Edwin Arnold • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle EasternOne of the most important of the medieval Persian poets, SA'DI (1194-1292) is still read widely...

• Author(s): Frederick Hadland Davis • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Islam - SufiRumi (1207-1273) was a Persian jurist and theologian best known for being perhaps the finest of all Sufi poets. His writin...

• Author(s): Frederick Hadland Davis • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Islam - SufiJami (1414-1492), a scholar and mystic, is considered by many to be one of the greatest Persian poets of the 15th century....

• Author(s): Khwaja Shamsuddin Mohammad • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralEvery flower its beauty bestows, Your lips the dearest gems dispose, May your lips nurture our souls, With the wine that eve...

• Author(s): John Chardin | Percy Molesworth Sykes • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralSir John Chardin's Travels in Persia is an abridged translation of the original French edition, whi...

• Author(s): Jacob Abbott • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralAbraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have...

• Author(s): Jacob Abbott • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAbraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I...

• Author(s): Omar | Edward Fitzgerald • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralOh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Re...

• Author(s): Charles W. Eliot | Edward William Lane | Stanley Lane-Poole • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendo...

• Author(s): M. Winternitz | F. Max Müller • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of A...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Civil RightsWhen we further consider that to understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman; that even if he could stu...