A few original typesetter's errors (inconsistent spelling,
superfluous quotation marks, and the like) have been corrected
in the interests of producing a smooth-reading text.

The reader will also occasionally find a line of asterisks
between sections. These are found in the original and they
indicate a missing section. It is not clear why the translator
skipped these sections. Reference to another, complete,
translation of the Gulistan shows no appreciable differences,
in length or subject, between the sections included and those
excluded.





PERSIAN LITERATURE

comprising

THE SHÁH NÁMEH, THE RUBÁIYÁT
THE DIVAN, AND THE GULISTAN

Revised Edition, Volume 2

1900

With a special introduction by
RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL, Ph.D.
Professor of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic Languages