1st Edition

The Gulistan; or Rose-Garden of Shekh Muslihu'D-Din Sadi Shiraz

By Edward B. Eastwick Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume I of thirteen in a collection on Persia. Originally published in 1880, this is a translation of The Gulistan or Rose-Garden of Shekh Muslihu'D-Din Sadi Shiraz. The Gulistan of Sadi has attained a popularity in the East which, perhaps, has never been reached by any European work in this Western world. Written in the first half of the thirteen century, in Sadi's code of morals, mercy... Read more
Preface, Translators Notes, Life of Sadi, A List of the Writings of Sadi, Preface, Chapters, Conclusion

Biography

Edward B. Eastwick of Merton College, Oxford; Member of the Asiatic Societies of Paris and Bombay; Formerly Professor of Oriental Languages and Librarian in the East India College, Haileybury.