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• Persian Literature (2-volume collection), by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Sa'di, ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil, trans. by James Atkinson, Herman Bicknell, Edward FitzGerald, and James Ross
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 18984-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Epic of Kings (retellings of portions of Firdawsi's Shah Nameh), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Episodes From the Shah Nameh: or, Annals of the Persian Kings (in English and Pahlavi; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by Firdawsī, ed. by Stephen Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shah Nameh: Stories Retold from Firdusi (New York: E.C. Hill, 1906), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī and Julius Mohl (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rose Garden of Persia (London: Gibbings, 1899), ed. by Louisa Stuart Costello, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Rubaiyat, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by E. H. Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (text from the first edition of 1859; illustrations from various editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Frank Brangwyn, René Bull, Willy Pogány, and Maurice Greiffenhagen (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (first edition), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (fourth edition, 1879), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (from multiple editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Blanche McManus (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (multiple editions side-by-side), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (frame-dependent HTML at therubayiat.com)

• Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Rajeev Kinra (multiple formats at Luminos)

• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Firdosi's Königsbuch (Schahname) (3 volumes, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1890-1895), by Firdawsī, ed. by Edmund Alfred Bayer, trans. by Friedrich Rückert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Secrets of the Self (London: Macmillan and Co. 1920), by Muhammad Iqbal, trans. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam (Spanish translation by Castellot of FitzGerald's English version; c1918), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald and José Castellot, contrib. by José Juan Tablada (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adventures of Hatim Taï: A Romance (London: Printed for the Oriental translation fund, 1830), trans. by Duncan Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)