Read-alikes and related books

Books like Persian Poets

Across Middle Eastern, Inspirational & Religious, Anthologies (multiple authors), and Subjects & Themes — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Persian Poets by Peter Washington.

Top related books to Persian Poets

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Persian Poets.

Radical Love Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Omid Safi

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Anthologies (multiple authors)

Sand and Foam and Other Poems

Kahlil Gibran

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

The Invisible Sun A Guide for the Soul from Rumi’s Master

Attar

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Mahmoud Darwish

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

Islamic Mystical Poetry Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi

Mahmood Jamal

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

Gold

Rumi

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

Rumi’s Little Book of Love 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

Sparks of Phoenix

Najwa Zebian

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#10

The Subject Tonight Is Love 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

Daniel Ladinsky

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#11

The Twenty-ninth Year Poems

Hala Alyan

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#12

The Unseen Poems

Rumi

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#13

Ellipsis

Fady Joudah

Themes: Middle Eastern • Anthologies (multiple authors) • Subjects & Themes

#14

The Glance Songs of Soul-Meeting

Jalaloddin Rumi

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#15

A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets Maya Bejerano, Sharron Hass, Anat Zecharia (Poems in Hebrew and English)

Maya Bejerano

Themes: Middle Eastern • Anthologies (multiple authors) • Subjects & Themes

#16

In the Presence of Absence

Mahmoud Darwish

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#17

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Kaveh Akbar

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#18

Rumi: Poems

Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#19

The Conference of the Birds

Farid ud-Din Attar

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#20

Rumi: Soul Fury Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship

Coleman Barks

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#21

Book of the Edge Poems

Ece Temelkuran

Themes: Middle Eastern • Anthologies (multiple authors) • Subjects & Themes

#22

I Heard God Laughing Poems of Hope and Joy

Daniel Ladinsky

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#23

The Muses Will Love You Dearly

Fait Muedini

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

#24

Calling a Wolf a Wolf Poems

Kaveh Akbar

Themes: Middle Eastern • Inspirational & Religious • Subjects & Themes

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Middle Eastern, Inspirational & Religious, Anthologies (multiple authors) — the same threads that run through Persian Poets by Peter Washington. Among the authors featured: Omid Safi, Kahlil Gibran, Attar, Mahmoud Darwish, and others.