Saadi
Also recorded as Sadi of Shiraz · Sa'di of Shiraz · Sa`dī of Shiraz
Saadi
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- Born
- 1210. · Shiraz.
- Died
- 1291. · Shiraz.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Fields
- philosophy, literature and poetry.
- Education
- Nizamiyya of Baghdad.
- Known for
- Gulistan and Bostan.
- Languages
- Persian and Arabic.
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Saadi studied at Nizamiyya of Baghdad. The recorded working language is Persian and Arabic. The field of work recorded is philosophy, literature and poetry. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are ghazal. Works named in the authority record are Gulistan and Bostan.
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- 1.Hinds, Kathryn. The City. Marshall Cavendish. 2008. 9780761430896.
- 2.Oxford University Press dead link. Saadi. September 2022.
- 3.The top 100 books of all time. TheGuardian.com. 8 May 2002.
- 4.Hinds, Kathryn. The City. Marshall Cavendish. 2008. 9780761430896.
- 5.Encyclopedia Iranica.
- 6.Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 7.World Digital Library. Sa'di's "Gulistan".
- 8.Sacred-texts.com. The Gulistan of Sadi: Chapter VII. On The Effects Of Education, Story 2.
- 9.Sacred-texts.com. The Bustan of Sadi: Chapter V. Concerning Resignation.
- 10.حسنلی, کاووس. حدیث خوش سعدی – نظری به زندگی ، روزگار ، اشعار و اندیشه های سعدی در گفت وگو با دکتر کاووس حسن لی. کتاب ماه ادبیات. 162. 15. 16–23. 1390.
- 11.Movahed, Zia (2013). "Chapter Five: Saadi in Love". Saadi. Tehran: Niloufar Publications. pp 94–120
- 12.حیدری, علی. دگرگونی سعدی در غزل. پژوهشنامه ادب غنایی. 21. 11. 83–102. 1392.
- 13.Safā, Zabihollah. History of Literature in Iran. Ferdows Publications. 3. 584–622. 1990.
- 14.Saadi (1996). "Introduction to the Ghazals." In Foroughi, Mohammad Ali. The Collected Works of Saadi, edited by Baha-ud-Din Khoramshahi. Nahid Publications. pp. 351–352.
- 15.ایبنا – ترجمه "اشعار عربی سعدی" ارائه میشود. 2017-07-19.
- 16.Ripka, Jan (1385/2006). "Chapter Eight (The Mongols)." History of Persian Literature from Ancient Times to the Qajar Era. Translated by Isa Shahabi. Tehran: Scientific and Cultural Publishing Company, pp. 351–357. .
- 17.Katouzian, Sa'di, pp. 25, 33–35.
- 18.Katouzian Sa'di, p. 33.
- 19.From Gulistan Saadi. chapter 1, story 10
- 20.Dibache.com. گلستان سعدی، باب اول، تصحیح محمدعلی فروغی.
- 21."Zarif Narrates Story of Iranian Carpet Hung up on UN’s Wall". Iran Front Page online, April 19, 2017.
- 22.Garten, Mark. Gift from Islamic Republic of Iran UN Photo. www.unmultimedia.org. 1 December 2006.
- 23.500 rials cbi.ir Retrieved 5 May 2020
- 24.Mehr News Agency article 7 Tir 1389 (= 22 June 2010), quoted in Persian Wikipedia. The webpage appears to be no longer available.
- 25.[Vahid Dastjerdi, H. 2006, East of Sophia (Mashriq-e-Ma'rifat). Qom: Ansariyan.]
- 26.Selections from Saadi's Gulisan , translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman (Global Scholarly Publications 2004)
- 27.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Tehran (Iran), 30 August 2012. www.un.org.
- 28.The English version is from the 2nd edition (1880) of the translation of the Gulistan by Edward Eastwick.
- 29.Iran Front Page article, April 19, 2017.
- 30.Full text of Eugene Onegin is available here.
- 31.Yohannan, J. D. Persian Poetry in England and America: A Two Hundred Year History . 1977. New York: Caravan Books. pp. XXV-XXVI
- 32.Milani, A. Lost Wisdom. 2004. Washington. p. 39
- 33.US President Obama's New Year's greeting to the people of Iran, March, 2009. whitehouse.gov. 20 March 2009.
- 34.NASA. Sadī. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
- 35.National commemoration of Saadi Day isna.ir
- 36.Empty mausoleum of Saadi Shiraz amid COVID-19 pandemic mehrnews.com
- 37.Saadi commemoration ceremony in Bandar Abbas yjc.ir
- 38.1 Ordibehesht, Saadi Commemoration Day bultannews.com
- 39.Saadi Commemoration Day isna.ir
- 40.Saadi Shirazi Commemoration Day hawzah.net
- 41.Commemoration of Saadi yjc.ir
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Ingenito, Domenico (2020). Beholding Beauty: Sa'di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry. Brill.
- J.N. Mattock, "The Early History of the Maqama," "Journal of Arabic Literature", Vol. 25, 1989, pp 1–18
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