Is the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writers of Persian seek to emulate.
Voltaire, Goethe, Arnold, Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Franklin discovered, read, and took inspiration.
It also traveled abroad.
Sir John Malcolm even relates being told that it is the basis of the law of the Persians.
In terms of moral, philosophical or practical wisdom, it is endlessly quoted to either illustrate or prove a point.
Is the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writers of Persian seek to emulate