The ''Bustan'' ( fa, بوستان, also transliterated as ''Būstān'', ''Bustān''; "the orchard") is a book of poetry by the Persian poet Saadi, completed in 1257 CE and dedicated to the Salghurid

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Sa'd I or Sa'd II. ''Bustan'' is considered one of two major works of Saadi. It was Saadi's first work. The book contains the fruits of Saadi's long experience and his judgements upon life, and is illustrated by a vast collection of anecdotes. It includes accounts of Saadi's travels and his analysis of human

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. He often mentions his accounts with fervour and advice similar to Aesop's fables. The book has ten chapters regarding the issues of ethics and training; namely, justice, mercy, love, humility, contentment, devotions, education, gratitude, repentance, and praying. This book is one of the 100 greatest books of all time according to Bokklubben World Library. It is composed in '' mathnawī'' style (rhyming

couplet A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the ...

s), and has been translated into

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. The ''Bustan'' was translated into Dutch in 1688 by Daniel Havart. In India, Bustan and Gulistan were taught to schoolboys in maktabs, and it had to be learnt by heart. File:Yusef Zuleykha.jpg, '' Yusuf and Zulaikha''. Miniature by Behzad from the Timurid copy of ''Bustan''.

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, 1488. Egyptian National Library File:A party at night, from the Bustan (Orchard) of Sa`di (CBL Per 236).jpg, ''A party at night''.

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

miniature (possibly by

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) attached to the Timurid copy of ''Bustan''.

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, c. 1540. Chester Beatty Library File:Sheet of the Bustan de Saadi - Google Art Project.jpg, Page from the Safavid copy of ''Bustan'' written in

nastaliq ''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Na ...

script. C. 1560–1570.

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File:The Dervish from Faryab Crosses the River on his Rug.jpg, ''The Dervish from Faryab Crosses the River on his Rug''. Miniature by Habiballah Savaji from the Safavid copy of ''Bustan''.

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, c. 1600–1608.

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File:Sadi1.jpg, The first page of the Mughal copy of ''Bustan''. Probably Abd al-Rashid Daylami, 17th century.

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External links

English translation of Bustan-e Saadi
(pdf) {{Authority control 1257 works 13th-century books Iranian books Saadi Shirazi Memory of the World Register in Iran

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