A look at Saadi's Aesthetic Theory in His Lyrics

Saadi's lyrics are unique among Persian lyrics. Through these enchanting poems, Saadi conveys his emotion and emotional thoughts to the audience. The subject of one of his deepest emotions, which is directly related to his thought and worldview, is beauty and aesthetics. He has spoken about the category of aesthetics fragmentary and essentially in connection with the beloved in order to reveal the traces of Saadi's philosophy or aesthetic wisdom. In this article, we aim to gather these fragmental ideas and organize them in a specific system. Therefore, with the intention of need, we have briefly reviewed the aesthetics theories from the distant past to the present, to make it possible to measure Saadi's perception of beauty with them. In this article, whose data have been collected using a library method and described analytically, we have found that Saadi can be cautiously considered as a theorist in the field of aesthetics. Undoubtedly, this theory derives from theological aesthetics in the Islamic world, which is partly influenced by Greek philosophy. This research shows that Saadi's view of beauty is structural and he considers beauty as a coherent phenomenon organized by different elements.