Complete Poems of Sa’di [Persian]

Description

The Mohammad-Ali Foroughi edition of Sa’di’s complete works is considered the standard edition of the great poet of Shiraz. It brings together the Golestan (The Rose Garden) and the Bustan (The Orchard) with Sa’di’s extensive body of Persian and Arabic odes (qasidas), lyric love poems (ghazals, arranged in four sub-collections: Tayyibat, Bada’i, Khawatim, and Ghazaliyat-e Qadim), quatrains (rubaiyat), fragments (qata’at), and short prose epistles (risalahs). It also provides a meticulous textual apparatus, variant readings, and editorial notes. Generations of scholars, university programs, and general readers have relied on this definitive text, and its clean typesetting makes it ideal for students of Persian (Farsi).
Sa’di’s style is renowned for seeming effortless while remaining impossible to imitate. His writing is as clear and accessible to today’s reader as it was to his contemporaries. For eight centuries, students of the language have been encouraged to read, memorize, and emulate him.