Shaykh Abu Muhammad Muslehuddin Saadi Ibn Abdullah Shirazi ( Persian : ابومحمد مصلح الدين بن عبدالله شيرازي ‎‎) ( also known as Shaykh Saadi or Saadi Shirazi ) was one of the most important Persian poets of the Middle Ages. He is also popular outside Persian-speaking countries. He is appreciated for the quality of his writing and depth of social and moral thought. Sadi is considered a poet of high caliber in classical literature.

Known by his pen name Saadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی Saadi Shirazi) was one of the major Persian poets and prose writers of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writing and for the depth of his social and moral thought. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets in the classical literary tradition and earned the nickname "Master of Speech" or "The Master" (Teacher) among Persian scholars. He is also cited in Western traditions. Bustan is considered one of the 100 best books of all time by The Guardian .

Saadi was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 589 AH, 1193 AD. He addressed himself in Golanstan, composed in 1255, "O fifty years ye who live! And yet sleep"; Another piece of evidence is that in one of his qasida poems he wrote that he had gone abroad when the Mongols came to his native Persia, an event that happened in 1225.

It seems that his father died when he was young. He recounts his childhood memories of going out with his father during festivals. After leaving Shiraz he entered the Nizamiya University of Baghdad, where he studied Islamic science, law, administration, history, Persian literature and Islamic theology; It seems he had a scholarship to study there. In Golestan he tells us that he studied under the scholar Abu-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi (probably the younger of the two scholars of that name, who died in 1238). Bustan and Golestan Saadi tells many colorful anecdotes of his travels, though some of these, e.g. About his journey to the far eastern Kashgar in 1231 AD, Can be imaginary. After the Mongol invasion of Khorezm and Iran, the situation was unsettled. He traveled abroad for thirty years through Anatolia (where he visited the port of Adana and met Gazi zamindars near Konya), Syria (where he mentioned the famine in Damascus), (where he described its music, markets, scholars and elites). , and Iraq (where he visited Basra and the Tigris River port). In his writings he is the Qadis of Al-Azhar, the Mufti, the Grand Bazaar, Mentioned music and art. At Halab, Saadi joined the Sufis who fought hard against the Crusaders. Saadi was captured by the Crusaders at Acre where he spent seven years as a slave digging outside his castle. He was later released after the Mamluks ransomed Muslim prisoners held in crusader dungeons. Saadi went to Jerusalem and went on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. It is assumed that heAlso visited Oman and other territories south of the Arabian Peninsula .

He was forced to live in secluded areas due to the Mongol invasion and met caravans fearing for their lives on the once vibrant silk trade routes. Saadi lived in isolated refugee camps where he met bandits, imams, former wealthy owners or the army, intellectuals and ordinary people. Mongol and European sources (such as Marco Polo) drew on the life of the ruling power and justice in the Ilkhanate, mingling with the ordinary survivors of the Saadi war-torn region. He stays late into the night in remote teahouses conversing with traders and farmers, preachers, passers-by, thieves and Sufi girlfriends. For twenty years or more, he continued the same schedule of preaching, exhortation and learning, respecting his teachings to reflect the knowledge and understanding of his people. Saadi's works deal with displacement during the tumultuous period of the Mongol invasion, Reflects the lives of ordinary Iranians suffering from suffering and conflict. Saadi mentions honey gatherers in Azerbaijan, fearing Mongol plunder. Eventually he returned to Persia where he met his childhood companions in Isfahan and other cities. In Khorasan Sadi befriended a Turkish emir named Tughral. Saadi joined him and his men on the Indus Yatra where he met Pir Puttur, a follower of the Persian Sufi grand master Shaykh Usman Marwandwi (1117–1274). Fearing Mongol plunder. Eventually he returned to Persia where he met his childhood companions in Isfahan and other cities. In Khorasan Sadi befriended a Turkish emir named Tughral. Saadi joined him and his men on the Indus Yatra where he met Pir Puttur, a follower of the Persian Sufi grand master Shaykh Usman Marwandwi (1117–1274). Fearing Mongol plunder. Eventually he returned to Persia where he met his childhood companions in Isfahan and other cities. In Khorasan Sadi befriended a Turkish emir named Tughral. Saadi joined him and his men on the Indus Yatra where he met Pir Puttur, a follower of the Persian Sufi grand master Shaykh Usman Marwandwi (1117–1274).