Moslih eddin saadi biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders.
poet: Sa&#;adi
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Sa&#;di (in Persian: ?????, full name in English: Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah) ( &#; /?) is one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period.
Moslih eddin saadi biography for kids
He is recognized not only for the quality of his writing, but also for the depth of his social thought.
Biography of Saadi
A native of Shiraz, Persia, Saadi left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences at Nizamiah University ().
He is known as a Sufi thinker, and was a student of the respected Sufi Sheikh Shahabuddin Suhrawardi.
Saadi liked to travel, and lived much of his life as a wandering dervish. After Iraq he traveled the region for nearly thirty years. He went to Shamat (Syria), Palestine, Hijaz (Arabia), Yemen,Egypt and Rum (Turkey), which was in Byzantine control at the time.
At one time he is said to have been captured by the Crusaders.
Saadi died in his hometown of Shiraz. There is some discrepancy about th