Reflections on Sa'di Shirazi's Historical Knowledge

The purpose of this research is to study SaadiShiraz’shistorical knowledge in Gulistan and Bustan. The knowledges and concepts of Saadi in history are abstruse points in creation of those two great works in Persian literature and there is little attention to them. This question will be answered in this article; what are the concepts and knowledge of Saadi in history for creation of these two works and which concepts and elementsadumbrate them? The principle assumption of this research is that the social and personal experiences of Saadi have a great effect on his historical knowledge. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic and the results show that a combination of individual, historical, and social factors which were effective in formation of intellectual and historical knowledge of Saadi: his education in Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad as the eldest cultural center of Islamic worlds, searching for the new horizons in turbulent era, and study of historical and cultural texts- by the social security ofSalghoriān. The great textual historical knowledge of Saadi caused appearance of his preconceived knowledge in some of his poetries and proses which are included the concepts and characteristics such as irrelevancy of god shadowing, tactility, efforts for application of element, historical concepts and characters, - mythical, homeland, Islamic- and consideration of history as an instrument for teaching morality in the form of stories, allegories, symbols, Allusion with attractive and magical technique.