Bostan (book)

The word Bustan (Persian بوستان, occasionally transmitted as Bostan or Bastan ) originally comes from Persian and refers to a "Garden of Taste", an orchard or kitchen garden.

The word is commonly used with this meaning in other oriental languages, Arabic and Turkish. In addition to the Bustan known in the Orient nor the Golestan ( "Rose Garden ", "Garden of Fragrance " that is, an ornamental garden ), and the Riyad, the walled, enclosed "garden of music and festivities ," often of four small streams from a central fountain starting divided into four rectangles.

With Bustan also the great Persian poet Saadi (the garden with his grave is located in Shiraz at the end of the Boulevard Bustan ) of one of his most important works overwritten (first German transmission by Friedrich Rückert ). It is also an important work of Sufism. It begins with the lines:

The Earth Far I have long ' by converts, with people of all types I have negotiated. In every corner I found a teaching from every cooking plucks ' I an ear. But noble people I found on none of plaice than in Shiraz, which would shield God! So my heart loves the men of this city, that 's rum and Syria has forgotten it. And yet, O shame, came from so many gardens with empty hand in home to the Companions. Then I thought to myself: Who returns from Egypt, brings with sugar, he revered his friend. Although I lack such ' sweet Angebind ' they are also sugar, not body feed, but geist'ge preserved in paper by way. You are a grove, the autumn storm unattainable, In the wide universe is none comparable to Him. They are a pleasure palace, playground of my loved ones, In short, this book " Bustan " overwritten!

Expenditure

• Saadi: Saadi 's Bostan. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990 ( translated by Friedrich Rückert ), ISBN 3-7648-0592-7.
• Saadi 's Bostan. Translated from the Persian by Friedrich Rückert. Edited by Jörn Steinberg, Jalal Rostami Gooran, Annemarie Schimmel and Peter Arnold Mumm. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2013 (. Friedrich Rückert works Historical-Critical Edition > Schweinfurt Edition < Founded by Hans Wollschläger † and Rudolf Kreutner Edited by Rudolf Kreutner, Claudia Vienna and Hartmut Bobzin, 1850-1851.2. .. ), ISBN 978-3 - 8353-04956.