biography
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Sadi or Saadi,
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assumed name of Sheikh Muslih Addin
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1184–?1292)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Iran. He studied at Baghdad, travelled much, and was taken prisoner by the Crusaders near Jerusalem, but was ransomed by a merchant of Aleppo, who gave him his daughter in marriage. The catalogue of his works comprises 22 different kinds of writings in prose and verse. The most celebrated are a series of moral and religious works, Gulistan (Rose Garden), Bostan (Orchard Garden), and Pend-Nameh (Book of Instructions). |
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