Conversation
Love as Narrated by Saadi; A Conversation with Soroush Dabbagh
This conversation explores the concept of love in Saadi's works and its place in Persian ethics, mysticism, and literature. Soroush Dabbagh, in conversation with Mohammad-Mehdi Olumi, examines Saadi's narrative of love, humanity, and life.
About this video
Saadi is one of the most important figures in Persian literature who narrated love not only in its emotional sense but also in connection with ethics, education, humanism, and wise living. This conversation seeks to show how love in Saadi's world relates to practical wisdom, compassion, and the understanding of humanity.
Soroush Dabbagh, in conversation with Mohammad-Mehdi Olumi, delves into the literary, ethical, and mystical layers of love in Saadi's works. The focus of the discussion is the relationship between love and virtue, suffering, beauty, the other, and the meaning of life in the classical Persian tradition.
This program is significant for those interested in Saadi, Persian literature, mysticism, ethics, and the philosophy of life, as it opens a path, through a reading of love in Saadi's works, to understanding the connection between poetry, wisdom, and lived human experience.
