Saadi

Mosleh al-Din, known as Saadi, was born in Shiraz around 1210 and lost his father in childhood. Still an adolescent, he left to study in Baghdad, at the Nizamiyya college. He then spent nearly thirty years travelling, in Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and Iraq, and says he was captured by the Crusaders and put to work digging ditches. Returning to Shiraz in 1257, he took his pen name from the Salghurid princes who ruled there, the Sa'd, and spent the rest of his life there. He died there in 1291 or 1292.

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