SALÁMÁN & ABSÁL
AN ALLEGORY
TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN
OF
JÁMI
BY EDWARD FITZGERALD
LONDON
ALEXANDER MORING LTD.
THE DE LA MORE PRESS
298 REGENT STREET W
MDCCCCIV
[1904]
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com by John Bruno Hare, September 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
This is a translation of an allegorical Sufi poem by the Persian Sufi poet Jami. Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami, (b. 1441 d. 1492), lived in what is today Afghanistan and Uzebekistan. The translator, Edward Fitzgerald, is best known for his translation of the Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam. This book has not been reprinted since it was published in the early 20th century, although the poem has been reprinted in conjunction with other Fitzgerald works.