SA'DÎ-İ ŞÎRÂZÎ AND MUSIC SA’DÎ-İ ŞÎRÂZÎ VE MUSİKİ

Sa'dî-i Şîrâzî, who was one of the significant figures of the Iranian literature, educated in Nizâmiyye Madrasah, acquainted with many poets, sufis and religious scholars, spent most his life with travel, also visited Anatolia during his travels, influenced poets and writers who grew up in Islamic countries with his works. Sa'dî's influence was not only limited to Persian literature, but also left important traces in the western world and in Turkish and Urdu literatures which is why it is possible to see this effect especially in the works written by poets and writers of the Turkish literature since the 14th century. Sa'dî, who was a sufi as well as a poet, made moral expressions in his works - especially in Bostan (Bûstân) and Gülistan - he used a simple, attractive and understandable style while telling his knowledge and experiences in the form of stories and anecdotes and he talked about historical figures from time to time and tried to make the reader understand the way of happiness, the necessity of humanity, the virtue of goodness and righteousness in small stories full of meaning and judgment, supported by verses, hadiths, proverbs and idioms and dealt with subjects such as servitude, discipline, love, affection to Allah (c.c.) and similar topics in an instructive manner, while doing this he used the concepts belonging to many branches of science and arts - especially music - as examples and parable. This paper aims to reveal Sa'dî's understanding of music by mentioning and explaining the stories and instructions in Bostan and Gülistan, in which the concepts related to music are given as examples and parable. The data obtained in our study, in which the document review method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used, was arranged in line with descriptive analysis, interpreted and presented to the readers.
Keywords: Sa’dî-i Şîrâzî, Bostan, Gülistan, Story, Advice, Music.