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| A 13th-century book of prose and verse in eight chapters: stories and wisdom on ethics, conduct, and leadership, often with a light hand. | Ethical and spiritual poetry in rhyming couplets, on justice, love, humility, contentment, and devotion. |
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| A mathnawi of twenty discourses by Nizami Ganjavi: ethics, justice, the soul, and the path of meaning, each opened by teaching and a story. | Mirza Mohammad Ali Saeb Tabrizi A vast collection of ghazals in the Indian Style: wisdom, contentment, human and divine love, and sharp single verses. |
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| Ghazals, poems, quatrains, masnavis, and other pieces of counsel. | Imagined and real poetic replies: Hafez’s verse, the apple story, the red tulip..etc. |
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| Witness to the Event: Saadi Shirazi An elegy by Saadi Shirazi—who witnessed the era—on the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols; the poem is composed in Arabic and consists of 92 verses. | A celebrated Persian satirical epic by the poet Ubayd Zakani. Through a multi-part translation and analysis, the text chronicles a fable where a predatory cat feigns religious repentance to deceive a community of mice, only to increase his brutality. The narrative serves as a sharp political allegory. |
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| Ubayd Zakani composed this treatise (book) in 742 AH, during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Persia—the interval between the decline of the Ilkhanids and the rise of Tamerlane. | It is a narrative poetic work based on the exchange of ten love letters or missives between a lover and the beloved, conveyed via a messenger, by Ubayd Zakani. |
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