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HafizTimeline (1320 - 1389)
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Hafiz, whose given name was Shams-ud-din Muhammad, is the most beloved poet of Persia. Born in Shiraz, he lived at about the same time as Chaucer in England and about one hundred years after Rumi. He spent nearly all his life in Shiraz, where he became a famous Sufi master. When he died he was thought to have written an estimated 5,000 poems, of which 500 to 700 have survived. His Divan (collected poems) is a classic in the literature of Sufism. The work of Hafiz became known to the West largely through the efforts of Goethe, whose enthusiasm rubbed off on Ralph Waldo Emerson, who translated Hafiz in the nineteenth century. Hafiz's poems were also admired by such diverse writers as Nietzsche, Pushkin, Turgenev, Carlyle, and Garcia Lorka; even Sherlock Holmes quotes Hafiz in one of the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1923, Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Indian teacher often credited with bringing Sufism to the West, proclaimed that “the words of Hafiz have won every heart that listens.” |
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Drunk on the Wine of Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz, by Thomas Rain Crowe Amazon.com
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The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky Amazon.com
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The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: With the Original Persian on the Facing Page, by Gertrude Bell Amazon.com
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Hafez: Teachings of the Philosopher of Love, by Haleh Pourafzal Amazon.com
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The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia, with Lectures by Inayat Khan, Translated by Coleman Barks Amazon.com
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I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky Amazon.com
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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky Amazon.com
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Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler Amazon.com
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Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, Translated by Bernard Lewis Amazon.com
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The Spiritual Wisdom of Hafez: Teachings of the Philosopher of Love, by Haleh Pourafzal / Roger Montgomery Amazon.com
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The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky Amazon.com
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| Hafiz Life & Poetry @ HafizOnLove.com http://www.hafizonlove.com/ Hafiz poetry, links, divination with Hafiz poetry, picture gallery. |
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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