The book includes works that touch on various eras and layers of world culture. They are united by the energy of religious feeling that motivates the behavior of the heroes. In “Tales of Miracles,” the fates of a Hasidic tzaddik, a wandering preacher and the head of the Roman Catholic Church are dramatically intertwined. The heroes of “Terjiband,” our contemporaries, build their real lives on the ideals of Muslim Sufi poets. “Mr. at the turn of 70–80 XX century, when the possibility of literary publications on similar topics was excluded.