Experts on Sadi to meet in Shiraz and Tehran

Iranians annually celebrate April 21, which has been designated as Sadi National Day.

The director of the Center for the Study of Sadi, Kurosh Kamali Sarvestani, gave details of the two-day seminar.

'Each year, specific aspects of the poet are chosen for discussion, and this year the focus will be on his ghazals,' Kamali Sarvestani told the Persian service of FARS.

He added that the poets would gather to review and discuss the beauty of the romantic lyrics of Sadi on these days.

'The programs will begin in the morning at the Fars National Library of Shiraz. Several experts will lecture on this day, including Asghar Dadbeh discussing the position of ghazals, Abdolali Dastgheib reviewing the structures of Sadi’s ghazals, Reza Shabani speaking on satire in Sadi’s ghazals, and Zia Movahhed on music in the ghazals,' he said.

Tribute will also be paid to Mostafavi household in an honoring ceremony for their great efforts in publishing the Divan of Sadi inscribed by the late Mirza Mahmud Adib Mostafavi.

On Thursday, the program will continue in Tehran under the title "Sadi in Ghazal" in collaboration with the cultural department of Tehran’s Book City.

'Experts Reza Davari Ardakani, Nasrollah Purjavadi, Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani, and several other scholars will be making presentations on this day,' he concluded.

Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi (C. 1213-1291) is one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature, worldwide famous for his Bustan (The Orchard) and Gulistan (The Rose Garden).

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