may well be the best yet written on the theology of Thomas…” “… nobody has done it better than he has.” John Dominic Crossan, author of The Historical Jesus and The Birth of Christianity“The most original, challenging, and persuasive book about the Gospel of Thomas that I have ever seen.” Morton Smith, author of Jesus […]

Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyám needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald’s classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy’s elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne’s sharp and poetic […]

The great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz is noted for his mystical love poems. The poetry of Hafiz has reached new heights of popularity in the West, yet his poems have been translated into European languages for over two hundred years. Hafiz is not a poet to be captured in a single translation. This modernised edition […]