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Cover illustration: Folio with heading, Saʿdi’s Kulliyāt, 725/1325, King Muhammad Zahir Shah’s Personal Library Collection © National Archives of Afghanistan.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ingenito, Domenico, author.
Title: Beholding beauty : Sa’di of Shiraz and the aesthetics of desire in medieval Persian poetry / by Domenico Ingenito.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 15715183 ; volume 41 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020037597 (print) | LCCN 2020037598 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004435896 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004435902 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Saʻdi—Criticism and interpretation. | Aesthetics in literature.
Classification: LCC PK6546 .I46 200 (print) | LCC PK6546 (ebook) | DDC 891/.511009—dc23
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ISSN 1571-5183
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