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This book contains the wisest parables and aphorisms of the great poet of the East and one of the most famous sages and philosophers. The sayings of Omar Kha...

“The Tale of Genji” (“Genji-monogatari”), the greatest monument of Japanese and world literature, was created at the turn of the 10th–11th centuries, during ...

The Ramayana is an ancient Indian epic poem in Sanskrit, the authorship of which is attributed to the legendary sage Valmiki. Its text, in the form in which ...

“History of Armenia” by the largest Armenian medieval historian, one of the outstanding representatives of world historiography Movses Khorenatsi covers the ...

Zahir ad-din Muhammad Babur left a rich literary and scientific heritage during his short 48-year life. He wrote the famous book “Babur-name”, which has gain...

‘Abd al-Latif b. Yusuf b. Muhammad b. ‘Ali Muwaffaq al-Din al-Baghdadi, a famous Arab encyclopedist, doctor and traveler, was born in 557/1162 in Baghdad. ‘A...

“The Tale of Zarer” is a literary monument of the 14th century.

This three-volume edition is based on the text of the gigantic compendium “Zhou Yi Zhe Zhong” (“Analysis of the Internal Content of the Zhou Changes”), compi...

The Chinese romance novel “Apricot Blossom” is, on the one hand, an anecdotal story full of irony about the adventures of a young man who, having acquired a ...

Lao Tzu’s “Book of the Way of Life,” called “Tao Te Ching” in Chinese, ranks second after the Bible in the world in terms of the number of foreign translatio...

The work of the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou (Zhuangzi; 369–286 BC) is the fundamental text of Taoism, Chinese religion and religious and philosop...

Confucius lived two and a half thousand years ago. He did not make any brilliant discoveries, but his name became a true symbol of folk wisdom, and his fame ...