Georgia honors Persian poet Sa’adi

A number of Iranian officials and Persian language scholars attended the ceremony along with Georgian Persian language Professors and Iranologists of Tbilisi State University.

Iranian Ambassador to Georgia Majid Saber thanked famous Georgian orientalist and translator of Sa’adi’s Golestan, Giorgi Lobzhanidze.

A short documentary film with Georgian subtitles was also screened during the event held at the Iranian embassy in Georgia on April 21, 2012. The film introduced Sa’adi’s hometown, the Iranian cultural city of Shiraz.

Born in Shiraz in 1194 CE, Sa’adi Shirazi, is known as a Sufi master, mystic and metaphysicist in the history of Persian literature.

His proficiency in Persian literature confers on him the title ‘Master of Prose and Poetry’.

Sa’adi is best-known for his Boustan and Golestan which present a peculiar blend of human kindness and cynicism, humor, and resignation in the form of stories and personal anecdotes.

He is also remembered as a great panegyrist and lyricist, the author of a number of masterly odes portraying human experience, and particular odes collected in Ghazaliyat (Sonnets) and Qasa’id (Odes).

Sa’adi is known world-wide for one of his aphorisms, which adorns the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the United Nations building in New York.

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