Description Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d.
While in no way seeking to deny the mystical stratum of the Persian ghazal in i.
Hafiz\'s ghazals, characterised as they are by conscious and deliberate hybridity, ambiguity, and polysemy, are products of a creative mind bent on experimenting with genre.
Recognising the aesthetic achievements of his contemporaries does not diminish the splendour of Hafiz\'s, rather it forces us to accept that Hafiz was but one member of a band of poets who jostled for the limelight in competing, often intersecting, Patronage and reception networks that facilitated intense cultural exchange between the cities of post-Mongol Iran and Iraq.
Looking beyond the particular milieu of Shiraz, this study re-assesses Hafiz\'s place in the Persian poetic canon through reading his poems alongside those produced by professional poets in other major centres of Persian literary activity who enjoyed comparable fame in the Fourteenth century. after 1391; the most prolific female poet of premodern Iran), our received understanding of this most iconic of stages in the development of the Persian ghazal is disrupted, and new avenues for literary exploration open up. 1371), and the marginalised Jahan-Malik Khatun (d.
By bringing Hafiz\'s lyric Poetry into productive, detailed dialogue with that of the counterhegemonic satirist, \'Ubayd Zakani (d.
Here, Hafiz\'s ghazals (short, monorhyme, broadly amorous lyric poems) are read comparatively against similar texts composed by his less-studied rivals in the hyper competitive, imitative, and profoundly intertextual environment of fourteenth-Century Shiraz.
In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz\'s Poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself, this book attempts a contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once socio-political, historical, and literary. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many.
Description Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d
