Aficionados of literature have commemorated the Day of Sa’adi Shirazi, the world-renowned Persian poet and literary scholar of the medieval period.
According to Press TV, a number of Farsi literature enthusiasts gathered at Sa’adi’s mausoleum in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Sunday.
Sa’adi, along with Mowlana Rumi and Hafez Shirazi, is regarded as one of the main pillars of ghazal (lyric) in Persian poetry.
Born in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 1208, Sa’adi is often referred to as the master of prose and poetry in the Farsi literature and he has been globally praised for expressing his deep social and moral thoughts in a style, which is famous for being “simple but impossible to imitate.”
Sa’adi studied Islamic sciences, law, governance, history, Arabic literature and Islamic theology at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad and set off for a three-decade journey to foreign lands after the Mongols invaded Iran in the 1220s.
Sa’adi is best-known for his books Bustan (The Orchard) and Golestan (The Rose Garden) as well as a number of masterly odes portraying human experiences.
Apart from Bustan and Golestan, Sa’adi also composed a book of lyrics (ghazals), as well as a number of odes, quatrains and short pieces in both Farsi and Arabic.
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