THE SECRET GARDEN
of Mahmud Shabistari

Translated by Johnson Pasha

Octagon Press, London, 1969, 1974

This book, by an almost unknown Persian sage of the 13th century, rapidly became, and has ever since remained, one of the greatest classics of spirituality in the East.

Five hundred years after it was written, two travelers introduced it to the West. This version was translated by Johnson Pasha in the 19th century from a text prepared for the Aga Khan.