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Sa'di, Poet of Shiraz

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ScholarPoet of Shiraz

Sa'diسعدی شیرازی

Approximate dateShiraz

A Persian poet whose Gulistan and Bustan taught manners to centuries of schoolchildren.

He left Shiraz as the Mongols threatened, studied at the Nizamiyya of Baghdad and spent decades travelling. Back home he wrote the Bustan and the Gulistan, stories and verses on justice, humility and kindness. His lines on all people being limbs of one body are known across the world.

What grew out of it?

The Gulistan was a first reader in Persian from Istanbul to Delhi.

Who else is linked?

ShirazMuslim Mongol khanatesHafiz

Who lived at the same time?

Al-MustasimShajar al-DurrTuran ShahIzz al-Din AybakLouis IXMuhammad I of GranadaSundiata KeitaAl-Salih Ayyub

Source: history · Wikipedia

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