Iran to mark Sa’adi Day

Many Iranian university professors and scholars are slated to attend the ceremony celebrating the birth anniversary of the world-renowned poet.

This year’s event, set to be held at the National Library and Document Center Hall of Shiraz on April 19, 2012, will include discussion sessions focusing on the ‘Islamic Studies’ and ‘Persian Culture’ in Sa’adi’s works.

Born in Shiraz in 1194 CE, Sa’adi Shirazi, is known as a Sufi master, mystic and metaphysicist in the history of Persian literature.

His proficiency in Persian literature confers on him the title ‘Master of Prose and Poetry’.

Sa’adi is best-known for his Boustan and Golestan which present a peculiar blend of human kindness and cynicism, humor, and resignation in the form of stories and personal anecdotes.

He is also remembered as a great panegyrist and lyricist, the author of a number of masterly odes portraying human experience, and particular odes collected in Ghazaliyat (Sonnets) and Qasa’id (Odes).

Sa’adi is known world-wide for one of his aphorisms, which adorns the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the United Nations building in New York.

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