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Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī: Quick Facts

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Born c.1250 • Iran
Died c.1320 • Tabrīz • Iran
Notable Works “The Mystic Rose Garden”
Subjects Of Study Sufism
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
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Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
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Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Persian poet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
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Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
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Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
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Anvarī
Persian poet
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Khāqānī
Khāqānī
Persian poet
Nezami
Neẓāmī
Persian-language poet
mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
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Sanāʾī
Persian poet
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ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
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Bābā Ṭāher ʿOryān
Persian author
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Rūdakī
Persian poet
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ʿIrāqī
Persian poet
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre
Turkish poet