Hafez
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Khajeh Shams-od-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, also known by his pen name Hafez, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian li
Posthumous portrait of Hafez by Anselm Feuerbach, 1852
Doublures inside a 19th-century copy of the Divān of Hafez. The front doublure shows Hafez offering his work to a patron.
Depiction of Hafiz reading a book, painted by Sultan Mohammed circa 1531. Allegory of drunkenness (detail), in the Cartier Hafiz.
Mihály Csokonai, a Hungarian poet, composed this piece of poetry in Persian rhythmical versification (ramal). It proves that this Persian metre and therefore the poems of Hafez have already been known generally in Hungary in the 18th century.
The Divân of Hafez
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The Divân of Hafez is a collection of poems written by the Iranian poet Hafez. Most of these poems are in Persian, but there are some macaronic language poems and a completely Arabic ghazal. The most
Hafez
…Persian writing more than any other Persian author. He is also known by his sobriquet Lisan al-Ghayb (Tongue of the Unseen). Hafez is best known for his Divân, a collection of his surviving poems probably compiled after his death. His works can be described as "antinomian" and with the medieval use of the…
The first page of the manuscript of the Divân of Hafez (1899)