{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/srg/index.htm","path":"isl/srg/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/srg/index.htm","text":"| Whirling Dervishes, by Jean-Leon Gerome [19th c.] (Public Domain Image) | The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari by Florence Lederer [1920] | \nSa'd ud Din Mahmud Shabistari was born in Persia, in Shabistar, near Tabriz, about 1250 CE. His best known work, The Secret Rose Garden was written as a reply to questions by a Sufi doctor of Herat. This set of verses uses the rich Sufi allegorical language to explore the path to God.","title":"The Secret Rose Garden Index","type":"page"}