Sa'di

Once I dreamt I was standing on a foot-stall in the middle of Washington University's elegant quadrangle on the hilltop campus reciting a poem by the fourteen century poet of Shiraz, Sa'di.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

I am not Sa'di, the exotic poet from medieval Shiraz either.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

I am not Sa'di, the exotic poet from medieval Shiraz either.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

Once I dreamt I was standing on a foot-stall in the middle of Washington University's elegant quadrangle on the hilltop campus reciting a poem by the fourteen century poet of Shiraz, Sa'di.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

That may be because Sa'di did not live in the age of embedded journalism and mega bombs.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

That may be because Sa'di did not live in the age of embedded journalism and mega bombs.

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah Fatemeh Keshavarz 2011

President Obama mentioned an important notion by the medieval Persian poet Sa'di in a video message to the Iranian people for their recent New Year, "The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence."

Jamsheed K. Choksy: Engage Iran's Citizens, Isolate Its Government 2009

The city is particularly famous for its poetry, having birthed Sa'di and Hafez, two great poets of the Persian Empire (and the middle ages for that matter).

John Lundberg: Finding Good In The Axis Of Evil 2008

Though born in Shiraz, Sa'di (1184-1283) traveled widely throughout the Middle East.

John Lundberg: Finding Good In The Axis Of Evil 2008

For most of us are like the friend of Sa'di who requested him to put in a good word with the sultan that he may be promoted.

Of Happiness 2007