Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
232 toolsthatareparticularlyeffectiveinfirstelicitingandthenultimatelytransform- ing our unconsciously governing inner metaphysi ...
which each reader is able to supply for each of these indispensable dialogical components, embedded in the intensely condensed i ...
234 theirmanifoldindividualimplicationsandoutcomes)socarefullyembeddedineach successivelineandhalf-lineofhisghazals. In short, t ...
facingPersiantext),Ihavebasedthefollowingtwoillustrationsonmyownslightly revised versions of the translations by Elizabeth T. Gr ...
236 [5]EverytipofmyhairhasthousandsofworkswithYou: We,wherearewe?Andthework-lessblamer,whereishe? [6]Reasonhasgonemad.Whereareth ...
voiceofthewhiteangelontheprotagonist’sshoulder,accurateandpertinent,but alsopainfullysoftanddistant.Andinline3,Ḥāfiẓgivesfulliro ...
238 Friend/Spirit and the self-separating, illusory ego, which was so sharply evoked in line 5. This inner union of the heart-se ...
indeed,itsopening(andpointedlyeschatological)banquet-imagery,atfirstglance, isasclosetofamiliarandbanalasonewilleverfindinthispo ...
240 connected problems, meanings and frameworks of interpretation familiar from otherghazals and from the poet’s wider cultural ...
receptive human Heart, and in the active ‘spiritual conversation’ (suḥbat) or inter- action with the Beloved that fills it. In p ...
242 whosePresenceintheHeartissoemphaticallyrecalledandcelebratedatthevery endofthisghazal(line7). Lines2–3:The‘Instant’anditsDem ...
provocatively – expressing the natural consequence of those preceding lines’ emphasis on the immediacy of the Heart’s direct Kno ...
244 stageofourpath,areinevitablyandultimatelyinGod’shands,notsolelytheresultof ourownillusionof‘arbitrarychoosing’(ikhtiyār).For ...
shouldunderstandIt,anddeafnessupontheirears.Sowheneveryoumention yourLord,theOneHimself,intheQur’ān,theyturntheirbacksinloathing ...
246 the apparently impenetrable metaphysical barrier – or so the thickly veiled critic imagines it! – between this visible world ...
equallyrhetorical:‘Sobetweenthem,whatistheWishoftheCreator/Worker?’–of the One Whose Will, as the Qur’ān insists countless times ...
248 friends and colleagues from very different cultures, backgrounds and walks of life, andwhichIhadonlyseenroughlyparalleledinv ...
Becauseoftheshrinkingnumberofcontemporaryreadersandinterpreterswhoare sufficiently familiar with even a few of the most essentia ...
250 (^7) AccordingtotheversioninIbnMāja’sSunan(I,44):‘Godhas70[or700/70,000]veilsoflightanddark- ness: if He were to remove them ...
TheSemioticHorizonsofDawn inthePoetryof √Æfiæ FranklinLewis ForHisangerisbutforamoment, Hisfavorisforlife; Weepingmayendureforan ...
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