Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
xx (‘ilm-iḥudhūrī),arecompletelyalientothepresuppositionsofthemodernmaterial- istsocietyoftheWest.IfwearetogainaccesstoḤāfiẓ’s‘v ...
you talk to a box turtle. Ḥafiẓ studies today suffer from a similar conspiracy of silence.Inmodernliterarystudiesandcriticaltheo ...
xxii ‘AṭṭārofNishapur(d.618/1221or627/1229),Sa‛dī(d.circa691/1292)andJalālal- DīnRūmī(d.672/1273).Thespiritualtraditionsthatsust ...
civilization which saw the establishment of the great Sufi Orders throughout the MiddleEast,CentralAsiaandIndia.Theauthorexamine ...
xxiv perspective[foundin]theGulshan-irāzofMaḥmūdShabistarī(d.after740/1340),a workdoubtlessknowntoḤāfiẓaswellasDavānī’.Sufiautho ...
to intimately personal voices in each verse, divine allusions (to Heart, Spirit and God)complementingthehumanlyindividualworkofu ...
xxvi Acknowledgements ThecontentsofthepresentvolumearebasedonaconferenceonHafizandtheSchool ofLoveinClassicalPersianPoetry,conve ...
PART I ḤĀFIẒINTHE SOCIO-HISTORICAL, LITERARYAND MYSTICAL MILIEUOF MEDIEVAL PERSIA ...
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Prolegomenonto the Studyof√Æfiæ 1– Socio-historicalandLiterary Contexts: √Æfiæ inSh∞rÆz LeonardLewisohn Citédel’amour When Ḥāfiẓ ...
4 Qur’ānischantedmorebeautifullythananywhereelseintheMuslimworld.The citywasalsolikeFlorenceinbeingbothhotlydecadentandahotbedof ...
andsoundofthesongsofnightingalesechoingthroughShīrāz’smeadowsandgar- dens.Itslargeparks,fountainsandgardens,imposingpalaces,plea ...
6 Shīrāzinspiresloveinhim;loveinspireshimtopraiseShīrāz.‘ThewoesofLoveare allbutonesingletale,yethowstrangeitisthateveryonewhote ...
sphere’,^31 waslargelyindebtedtoKhwājū’sideas.Intheeroticmathnawīverseof Khwājū,onefindsexplicitimageryofsexualunion,intimatedes ...
8 ThemostimportantcontemporarymasterlyricalpoetwasSalmānSāvajī(d. 778/1376),whoresidedinTabriz,theothermajorculturalcapitalcityo ...
Anotherfirst-classPersianghazalpoet,theSufiKamālKhujandī(d.803/1400),was likeSalmānalsobasedinTabrizandsharedhisethosoflove.Allt ...
10 mentiontheoeroticsensibility,poeticvision,mysticalpersuasionandmetaphysical thought,exhibitanoverallconcordance.^58 Belonging ...
doctrineofinspiredlibertinismorrindī(seebelow:ProlegomenonII,p.31–55).In ‘Ubayd’slyrics,whichlargelyfollowSa‛dī’sstyle,theperple ...
12 inhowskilfullyhecouldparaphrase,imitate,replytoandsohopefullyexcelthose poetsbyhisoriginalmanipulationofthesamerawmaterials–i ...
constitutes Persia’snational lyrical epic, expressive of the Persian people’s refinedwit,beauty,satire,joyandstruggleforsocialre ...
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