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Siyasatnama
thumb|491x491px|A front page of the Government Book.
The Siyasatnama (, ), also known as the Siyar al-muluk (, ), is the most famous work attributed to Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the Nizamiyyas (higher education institutions) in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah. Nizam al-Mulk possessed "immense power" as the head administration for the Seljuk Empire over a period of 30 years and was responsible for establishing distinctly Persian forms of Islamic government and administration which would last for centuries. A great deal of his approach to governing
Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini
historical account of the conquest of Persia by the Mongols of Genghis Khan
The Storehouse of Mysteries
epic poem by Nezami Ganjavi
Khamsa
set of five poems by Nizami

Romance of Warqa and Gulshah
early thirteenth-century manuscript poem by Ayyuqi
Al-Nadirah
thumb|The fortified desert city of Hatra, which had repelled three Roman and one Sasanian sieges, fell to the Sasanian king [[Shapur I in 241.]]
Manafi' al-Hayawan
illuminated Persian manuscript of ''Manafi' al-Hayawan'' by Ibn Bakhtishu
Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī
14th-century poem by Hafez
Rumi ghazal 163
13th-century poem by Rumi