'Literature' is defined broadly in BOSLIT: in addition to poetry, drama and prose, BOSLIT records translations of material from the oral tradition, together with writings by Scottish historians, philosophers, scientists, theologians and others whose works are considered to have aesthetic, intellectual and cultural significance. Most translations recorded in BOSLIT are from Scottish literary works in English, Scots and Gaelic, but more recently BOSLIT has recorded translations from writers of Scotland's diverse linguistic communities, for example Arabic, Persian and Albanian texts".