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Sadi or Saadi, Persian poet, 1184-1291. b. Shiraz. Orphaned at an early age, Sadi studied in Baghdad, where he met Suhrawardi, a major Sufi figure. Having to flee Baghdad because of the Mongol threat, he went on a long journey that took him to central Asia and India, then to Yemen and Ethiopia through Mecca. Sadi was captured by the Franks in Syria and worked at hard labor until ransomed. He proceeded to N Africa and Anatolia, before returning to his native Shiraz in 1256. His Bustan [fruit garden], an ethical-didactic text, was composed in mathnawi (rhyming couplets). Even more popular is his Gulistan [Garden of Roses], written in rhyming prose. Sadi is also the author of many qasidas (long panegyrics) in Persian and Arabic, of mystic ghazal (love poems), and of satiric poetry. His tomb in Shiraz is a shrine.
See G. M. Wickens' translation of the Bustan, Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned (1974).
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Saadi or Sadi is a surname. It may refer to one of the following:
- Saadi dynasty, a dynasty of Morocco
- Saadi (poet), medieval Persian Sufi poet
- Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi, Iraqi interpreter and pilot
- Ramón Saadi, Argentine politician, son of Vicente Saadi
- Suhayl Saadi, Scottish author
- Vicente Saadi (1913-1988), Argentine politician
- Youcef Saadi, Algerian professional soccer player
- Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di, Islamic scholar of fiqh and tafsir
- Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi (or al-Saadi), Iraqi chemical engineer and weapons developer
- Marie François Sadi Carnot, former president of France
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist
- Saïd Sadi, Algerian political activist
Saadi as a given name:
- Al-Saadi Qadhafi, Libyan professional soccer player
- Saadi Simawe, Iraqi-American author, teacher, and translator
- Saadi Yacef, Algerian politician
- Saadi Youssef, Iraqi writer and publisher
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