Makhzan ol-Asrar

Makhzan ol-Asrar
by Nizami Ganjavi
Makhzan ol-Asrar, Going to visit Dervish
Original titleمخزن‌الاسرار
TranslatorGholam H. Darab[1]
LanguagePersian
Subject(s)
  • self-knowledge
  • theology
  • mysticism
Publication date12th century
A calligraphic page from Makhzan ol-Asrar by Nizami Ganjavi in Nastaliq script.

Makhzan ol-Asrar or Makhzan al-Asrar (Persian: مخزن‌الاسرار, means: The Treasury of Mysteries) is the title of a famous Mathnawi by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). Makhzan ol-Asrar is the first poem collection in the main and best known work of Nizami Ganjavi called Khamsa of Nizami and one of the prominent examples of didactic literature. This Mathnawi has about 2,250 Persian distichs and it was completed at the age of forty of Nizami Ganjavi and since then it has always been considered one of the most important poetic and written works in Persian literature.[2][3]

It starts with this distich:[4]

  1. ^ Darab, Gholam Hossein. Treasury of Mysteries, translation of Makhzanol Asrar. (London:. Arthur Probsthain, 1945).
  2. ^ JTP de Bruijn. Persian Sufi Poetry, An Introduction to the Mystical – Taylor and Francis (Routledge) 1997 pp. 97–98
  3. ^ کتاب مخزن الاسرار حکیم نظامی گنجه_ای [چ1] -کتاب گیسوم (in Persian). قطره،. 1997. ISBN 978-964-5958-38-9. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. ^ نظامی, الیاس بن یوسف; دستگردی, وحید. مخزن الاسرار (in Persian). تهران: قطره.