THE ROSE GARDEN

Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Saadi of Shiraz
translated by Edward R. Eastwick

Octagon Press, London, 1979

Saadi's Gulistan, The Rose Garden, is both one of the best-known of the Sufi classics and a major work of Persian literature. From its creation in the first half of the thirteenth century, this work has attained a popularity in the East which is unsurpassed. To this day it is quoted by school children and scholars alike.