It is well established that Shaykh Saʿdī was affiliated with the futuwwa tradition, particularly the brotherhood of the saqqāyān (water-bearers). In his final years, at the expense of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, the Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān, he founded a ribāṭ (Sufi lodge) outside Shiraz. After his death, he was interred on the site’s suffah; consequently, over the centuries, the ribāṭ served as a pilgrimage site for both the poor and the elite, its fortunes fluctuating with broader historical conditions. Contemporary accounts from near Saʿdī’s lifetime are scarce. This article introduces two early sources on the ribāṭ’s foundation and explores their historical implications. The earlier source is an addendum appended between 721/1321 and 742/1341–42 to the Suʿāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān treatise, one of the six prose works in Saʿdī’s Kulliyāt. This addendum reveals that the ribāṭ was originally founded in 679/1280–81 and that, exactly thirty years after Saʿdī’s death—in 721/1321—ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿImād al-Dīn Muḥammad Faryūmadī, an influential minister and arts patron at the Ilkhanid court of Sultan Abū Saʿīd Bahādur Khān, allocated resources for its reconstruction and the revival of its charitable activities. The second source is a previously unpublished poetic fragment by Jalāl Ṭabīb of Shiraz (d. before 785/1383–84) praising Saʿdī’s ribāṭ; absent from the edited dīwān, the poem highlights the ribāṭ’s connection to water and the practice of siqāyat (providing water).
Afshinvafaie, M. (2025). Saʿdī’s Ribāṭ: New Evidence on Its Construction and Restoration, with a New Critical Edition of the Treatise Suʾāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān. Persian Language and Literature, (), -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.69386.3859
MLA
Afshinvafaie, M. . "Saʿdī’s Ribāṭ: New Evidence on Its Construction and Restoration, with a New Critical Edition of the Treatise Suʾāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān", Persian Language and Literature, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.69386.3859
HARVARD
Afshinvafaie, M. (2025). 'Saʿdī’s Ribāṭ: New Evidence on Its Construction and Restoration, with a New Critical Edition of the Treatise Suʾāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān', Persian Language and Literature, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.69386.3859
CHICAGO
M. Afshinvafaie, "Saʿdī’s Ribāṭ: New Evidence on Its Construction and Restoration, with a New Critical Edition of the Treatise Suʾāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān," Persian Language and Literature, (2025): -, doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.69386.3859
VANCOUVER
Afshinvafaie, M. Saʿdī’s Ribāṭ: New Evidence on Its Construction and Restoration, with a New Critical Edition of the Treatise Suʾāl-i Ṣāḥib-i Dīwān. Persian Language and Literature, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.22034/perlit.2025.69386.3859
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