Eastern Classics - Year 3

Eastern Classics Reading List – Year 3

Month One

• Anonymous, The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged, Volume 3, translated by Bibek Debroy (Penguin Classics)

Month Two

• "The Laws of Manu", A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, edited by Sarvepali Radhakrishnan and Charles A. Moore (Princeton University Press), pp. 172-192

Month Three

• John W. I. Lee, The Persian Empire (The Great Courses)

• Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds, translated by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis (Penguin Classics)

Month Four

• Firdawsi, The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 (Project Gutenberg)

• Kalidasa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems, translated by Chandra Rajan (TBS)

Month Five

• Sadi, The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 (Project Gutenberg)

• Kalidasa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 2: Plays, translated by Chandra Rajan (TBS)

Month Six

• Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, translated by Dick Davis (Penguin Classics)

• Nasrullah Munshi, Kalila and Dimna, translated by Wheeler Thackston (Hackett Publishing Company)

Month Seven

• Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, Persian Letters, translated by C. J. Betts (Penguin Classics)

• Pahlavi Texts, vol. 1 of 5. The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast, The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5.

Month Eight

• Jala’lu’d-Di’n and Rumi, The Persian Mystics, translated by Hadland Davis (John Murray, Project Gutenberg)

• Rumi, Selected Poems · Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks (Penguin Classics)

Month Nine

• Al-Ghazali, The Book of Knowledge: Book 1 of The Revival of the Religious Sciences (The Fons Vitae Al-Ghazali Series), translated by Kenneth Honerkamp (TBS)

Month Ten

• Anonymous, The Cat and the Mouse: A Book of Persian Fairy Tales, translated by Hartwell James (Project Gutenberg)

• Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness, translated by Claud Field (TBS)

Month Eleven

• Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah, translated by Frank Rozenthal (Wordpress)

• Al-Ghazali, Philosophical Theology, translated by Frank Griffel (TBS)

Month Twelve

• W. A. Clouston, A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil and Urdu, (Privately Printed, Project Gutenberg)

• Mary G. Houston, Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian costumes and decorations (Project Gutenberg)