Gulistan Illustrated: The Rose Garden - Sa'di Shirazi

Completed in 1258, Sa'di's Gulistan ('The Rose Garden') contains a wide-ranging selection of stories, anecdotes and poems offering advice and reflections on human existence, love, governing, education, and the nature of freedom - just as a rose garden is a collection of flowers.The full work contains some 595 short poems in Persian, consisting typically just under two couplets each. The stories are expressed in precise, minimalist language, providing psychological insight and wisdom.Considered the most influential work from the classical age of Persian literature from the tenth to sixteenth ce
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