Akhlāq-i muʻallimī nazd-i Mawlānā, Saʻdī va Shahīd-i S̱ānī

This study explores the ethics of teaching through the lens of three towering figures of Persian and Islamic thought: Mawlavī (Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad), Saʻdī, and Shahīd-i S̱ānī (Zayn al-Dīn ibn ʻAlī). Drawing on the Mas̱navī, the Būstān and Gulistān, and the juristic and ethical writings of Shahīd-i S̱ānī, the authors examine what distinguishes a virtuous educator. They consider the decisive role of intention in giving moral worth to instruction, the place of motivation and aspiration in learning, and the influence of insight and a far-sighted outlook upon character formation. Successive chapters treat joy and its effect on teaching, self-accounting, the measured correction of faults, the encouragement of virtue, companionship and its formative power, and the recognition of individual differences among pupils. Through anecdote, parable, and verse, the work offers a humane vision of pedagogy rooted in classical wisdom yet attentive to the enduring concerns of the modern classroom.