A short review of the book “Eight Paradise; An excerpt from Golestan Saadi”

According to the Fars news agency’s education department, In the official calendar of our country, the 1st of May is named as the day of “Commemoration of Saadi”. Iranian Persian-speaking poet who is called “master of speech” by literary people, and his works are collected in Saadi’s book, including Golestan in prose, book of Bostan in the form of Masnavi, as well as sonnets. In the following, on the occasion of the anniversary of Sheikh Ajl Saadi Shirazi, we have made a short review of one of the books which is an excerpt from Golestan Saadi and was published in the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents.

Center for intellectual development with the efforts of Dr. Hassan Zulfaqari, writer and literary researcher of Iran, published a book titled “Eight Heavens; He has compiled and published Golestan Saadi’s selection, in which we can see the description and explanation of words, criticism, review and analysis of the content, structure and aesthetics of Saadi’s stories and words.

In this book, 105 stories and prefaces are given, and tips about them are also included in the text. At the beginning of the book, you will get acquainted with the life, works and travelogues of Saadi, relying on the stories of this poet, and also a selection of opinions and ideas of Saadi scholars are also quoted in this work.

The compiler has chosen names for the stories of Golestan. The book is divided into eight chapters, and at the beginning of each chapter, the content structure and content of that chapter are presented. The compiler sometimes brings examples of Saadi’s other works to prove the mentioned content. Also, some long stories have been shortened, most of which are omissions related to Arabic poems.

In a part of this work, which is the fourth chapter of the book and is a look at the story of “Poor Poet and Amir Dezdan”, it is stated:

“A poet who has been angered by Amir Dezdan frees himself by making a point. Of course, the first mistake was made on the part of the poet who praised the thieves and thieves and the poetry of the unknown and tasted their loss and regret. The only joy of this sweet story was given to the thieves who made them happy with the behavior and words of the poor poet.

The book “Eight Heavens; An anthology of Golestan Saadi” with the number of 3,000 copies and 405 pages was published in Kanon stores or DJ Kanon’s online sales system at the address www.digikanoon.ir Can be purchased.