![]() Then he was under the guardianship of his maternal grandmother. ![]() Saadi Shirazi whose family were from religious scholars, lost his father when he was a child. In the Golestan, composed in 1258, he says in lines evidently addressed to himself, "O you who have lived fifty years and are still asleep" another piece of evidence is that in one of his qasida poems he writes that he left home for foreign lands when the Mongols came to his homeland Fars, an event which occurred in 1225. Saadi was born in Shiraz, Iran, according to some, shortly after 1200, according to others sometime between 12. His book, Bustan has been ranked as one of the 100 greatest books of all time by The Guardian. ![]() He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "The Master of Speech" or "The Wordsmith" ( استاد سخن ostâd-e soxan) or simply "Master" ( استاد ostâd) among Persian scholars. ![]() He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi Shīrāzī, better known by his pen name Saadi ( / ˈ s ɑː d i/ Persian: سعدی, romanized: Saʿdī, IPA: ), also known as Sadi of Shiraz ( سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī born 1210 died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period. ![]()
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