Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
134 Beloved’slaughandsometimesthroughHis/Herrebuke.Andeachofthese significationsisasignindicativeofadifferentkindofquestwithinth ...
The Book ofTheJoyofLove Notwithstandingappearances,oneofthemajorthemesofthepoemisthestatusof poetryintheprocessofremembrance.Asw ...
136 AswithBeauty’svariegatedmanifestations,poetryisalsobothmanifoldandone, bothdarkandluminous,anexpressionofnotonlyjoyanddeligh ...
(^11) See,forexample,theilluminatingremarksofAnnemarieSchimmelinheranalysisofthecharacteris- ticsofthePersianghazal:‘Therhetoric ...
138 ofoblivionimposeduponthem.Mighttheybeourtrueancestors?(...)Thesurestsignofourresi- denceinthetowercouldwellbethatwenolongerk ...
ThisidentificationisalsofoundinmysticalcommentaryonthisverseinḤāfiẓ’sDīvānbyAbū’l-Ḥasan KhatmīLāhūrī,Sharḥ-i ‘irfānī-yi ghazalhā ...
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PART III ḤĀFIẒANDTHE PERSIAN SUFI TRADITION ...
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√Æfiæ andtheSufi Charles-HenrideFouchécour translatedbyShushaGuppyandLeonardLewisohn Bymytitle,‘ḤāfiẓandtheSufi’,Ihavenowishtoan ...
144 inthiscentury,withmasterssuchasSayyidḤaydarĀmulī(782/1380).Thistoowas thecenturyoftheSarbedars,oftheoccultspeculationsofḤurū ...
currentduringhisage.ApartfromarichDīvāncomposedoverthecourseofhislife, fivemathnawīpoems from him arealso extant.Thefirst ofthes ...
146 Here,then,isaroughsketchoftheSufiworldinwhichḤāfiẓhadtosituatehim- self–arealworld,wheretheinfluenceofSufismwasthedominantfa ...
abyssofdivineUnity,theyhavebeenbroughtforthfromthebellyofthe whaleofAnnihilationandcastupontheshoresofSeparation[tafriqa]where t ...
148 ḤāfiẓandtheSufi suḥbat-i‘āfiyatatgarchihkhwūsuftādaydil jānib-i‘ishq‘azīzast,furūmagdhārash. Althoughconsortingwithwhat’ssaf ...
dignity,havingcontentedthemselvestoassumetherankofflies.^23 Standingattheir headisamanwhosurpassesthemallasavotaryoftheAntichris ...
150 InthislowerrealmwheretheMasteroftheTavernalsodwells,Ḥāfiẓhasbecome Love’s‘libertine’,liberatedfromalllawsandsolelydrivenbyth ...
mysticalpoetrywereunitedtogether.ThisispreciselywhatonefindsinḤāfiẓ’s Dīvān.InthefifteenthcenturyAD,thegrandcommentatoronShabist ...
152 chamberoftheheart,whichisamystery,therealityofwhichcanbedirectlyexpe- rienced,butnotcomprehended.^52 Withinhisheart,then,lie ...
TheCup,WineandDrunkenness SincetheCupofWine(i.e.,termssuchasjāmanditssynonyms)symbolizethe inverteddomeofHeavenortheoverturnedce ...
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