The Secret Garden

Written by a little-known Persian sage of the 13th century, The Secret Garden rapidly became, and has remained ever since, one of the very greatest classics of spirituality in the East. Five centuries after it was written, two travellers introduced it to the West. This version was translated by Johnson Pasha during the 19th century, from a text prepared for the Aga Khan. Shabistari’s ideas, which can be usefully applied to our own contemporary problems, are employed daily by psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists alike.