Saadi

Saadi in roseto. Ex manuscripto Mughal operis Gulistan (circa 1645).

Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī[1] (Persice ابومحمد مصلح‌الدین بن عبدالله شیرازی), nomine litterario Saadi (et Saadi Sirasiensis[2], Persice سعدی شیرازی Saadi Shirazi) notissimus, fuit poeta et auctor Persicus[3][4] aevi medii. Natus Sirasio in urbe Persica circa annum 1208; ibidem mortuus est anno 1291 aut 1292.

Prima pagina Bustan, e manuscripto Mogolicum.

Virtute eius scripturarum et profunditate eius cogitatorum socialium moraliumque innotuit. Late habetur unus e maximis classicae traditionis litterariae poetis; ergo eius epitheton inter eruditos linguae Persicae: "Dominus orationis" (Persice استاد سخن), breviter "Dominus."

  1. Kathryn Hinds, The City. Google Books. Books.google.com.pk .
  2. Schirasiensis, — Gabrielis Geitlin(fi) Specimen academicum "Pendnâmeh" sive librum consiliorum Scheich Musliheddin Saadi Schirasiensis..., Helsingforsiae 1835; Shirazensis, — Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae..., vol. I, 1697.
  3. Encyclopedia Iranica: "SAʿDI, Abu Moḥammad Mošarref-al-Din Moṣleḥ b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Mošarref Širāzi, Persian poet and prose writer (b. Shiraz, ca. 1210; d. Shiraz, d. 1291 or 1292), widely recognized as one of the greatest masters of the classical literary tradition."
  4. Encylopaedia Britannica: "Saʿdī, also spelled Saadi, byname of Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣlih al-Dīn, (born c. 1213, Shīrāz, Iran—died Dec. 9, 1291, Shīrāz), Persian poet, one of the greatest figures in classical Persian literature."

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