Saadi Shirazi
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Sheikh Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah Saadi Shirazi (1184-1291) (Persian: شیخ مصلحالدین مشرف بن عبدالله سعدی شیرازی) or Saadi was a Persian poet. He was born in Shiraz, Iran. He went to Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences in Nizamiyya University of Baghdad. He travelled to Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. His most famous poetry book is the Bostan (Persian: بوستان, meaning The Orchard). He also wrote the Golestan (Persian: گلستان, meaning The Rosery). His poems are in Persian and Arabic.
Saadi Shirazi Media
Gulistan Saadi (Calligraphy of Golestan Saadi in Nastaliq script)
A copy of Saadi Shirazi's works by the Bosniak scholar Safvet beg Bašagić (1870–1934)
Tomb of Sheikh Saadi by Eugène Flandin, 1851