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"Gulistan" ("The Rose Garden", 1258) is the pinnacle work of the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi (1210-1291). Written in the form of instructive and fascinating stories, supplemented by poetic aphorisms, it has become a golden fund not only of Persian but also of world literature. For more than seven centuries, Gulistan served as the main textbook on Persian language and literature not only in Iranian schools, but also in those countries where Persian and the related Tajik and Farsi-Kabuli languages were spoken. The book was copied and distributed in incredible numbers in Iran, Central Asia, Turkey, Egypt, India, and other countries. "Gulistan has deservedly gained fame as an unsurpassed example of Persian prose that achieves a remarkable harmony of form and content. The translation of Gulistan is based on the critical text by the famous Iranian scholar Mohammad Ali Forouhi.