Šūrīde va bī-qarār : darbāre-ye Sa‘dī va āṯār-e ū. Tehrān, Našr-e Qaṭre, 1384/2005, 184 p. (Honar va adabīyāt-e īrān, 164).

The reassessment of Sa‘dī and his literary achievement continues, this volume weighing whether or not the reputation he once enjoyed in Enlightenment Europe was fully deserved. This work, the title of which comes from a line of Sa‘dī’s verse, sides with Sa‘dī’s admirers (as does another recent monograph on Sa‘dī by Homā Kātūziyān), without adding very much new information or analysis. However, it does distill a good deal of information into a quickly digestible format, suitable for students o..