Provenance
Sources & editions
Wisdom Booth draws on named editions — public-domain scripture translations wherever one exists, so the text you read is a verifiable historical translation. This is a representative list; the full corpus spans many more works. How we cite and verify them is described in our methodology.
Islamic & Sufi
- Public domain
The Qur’an
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, trans. Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)
- Public domain
Kashf al-Mahjub
trans. R. A. Nicholson, of al-Hujwiri
- Public domain
The Alchemy of Happiness
al-Ghazali, classical translation
- Public domain
Divan of Hafiz
English–Persian editions
Hindu & Vedantic
- Public domain
The principal Upanishads
cited to verse (e.g. Mundaka 2.2.11, Katha 2.2.15)
- Attributed compilation
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
recorded by ‘M’ (Mahendranath Gupta)
Sikh
- Open translation
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
English trans. Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa; Gurmukhi aligned via BaniDB, cited by Ang
Buddhist
- Public domain
Dhammapada
classical English translation, cited by verse
Jewish
- Public domain
Tanakh
Jewish Publication Society (1917)
Christian
- Public domain
The Bible
King James Version, cited by book:chapter:verse
- Public domain
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
St John of the Cross, trans. David Lewis (1906)
- Public domain
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons
trans. Claud Field (1909)
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