Learn Before
Literary Collection

روضه پنجم بهارستان / The Fifth Garden of Baharestan (On Love and Passion)

The Fifth Garden (Rowze 5) of Jami's Baharestan

Jami's Baharestan is organized into eight thematic 'gardens' (روضه / rowze). The fifth garden gathers the prose anecdotes and their embedded verses that treat love and passion ('ishq va mohabbat). Its numbered sections belong here rather than directly under the whole collection: for example, the tale of Siddiq (Abu Bakr) overhearing an enslaved woman lament in love-verse (Section 3), the story of the youth Salil (Section 6), and the singer of Kufa freed for love (Section 8).

This garden-level container sits structurally between the Baharestan collection and its individual numbered sections, so that a learner encounters the chapter theme before its constituent stories.

0

1

Updated 2026-07-20

Contributors are:

Who are from:

References


Tags

Humanities

Literature

Persian Literature Prerequisite Course