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The GulistanThe Gulistan
A garden of short tales, maxims, and poems on kings and beggars, love and old age, gratitude and folly, gathered by a much-travelled Persian sage into the most cherished book of Persian prose. Wisdom worn light as a rose petal.
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A perennial treasury of Persian wisdom, humane, witty, and quietly profound, whose maxims have guided readers for eight centuries. Open anywhere and find a jewel.
SettingMedieval Persia
The medieval Persian world of sultans, dervishes, and caravan roads, where a wandering poet could turn a lifetime’s observation into a garden of tales.