THE GULISTAN (Rose Garden) OF SAADI
Chapter 8: On Rules for Conduct in Life
Taught by: Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Sunday 4th July 2010
10 am – 6 pm (registration starts at 9:30 am)
Fee: £20 (including course materials and light lunch)
Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane. Oxford, OX3 OBP.
Gulistan ("The Rose Garden") is a landmark literary work in Persian literature. Written in 1259 CE, it is one of two magna opera of the Persian poet Sa’di, considered one of the greatest medieval Persian poets. The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories, just as a rose-garden is a collection of roses. It is widely quoted as a source of wisdom.
It contains the well-known aphorism still frequently repeated in the western world, about being sad because one has no shoes until one meets the man who has no feet "where upon I thanked Providence for its bounty to myself."
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