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Acknowledgements

ThecontentsofthepresentvolumearebasedonaconferenceonHafizandtheSchool

ofLoveinClassicalPersianPoetry,convenedin2007bytheeditorandJamesMorrisat

the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) of the University of Exeter, UK.

LargelyfundedbytheIranHeritageFoundation(IHF),theconferencewasalsosup-

ported by the University of Exeter and the British Academy. I am very grateful to

MrFarhadHakimzadeh,formerDirectoroftheIHF,forhissupportofeveryaspect

of this volume – from the conference’s initial conception to the book’s final publi-

cation.IwouldliketothankProfessorsTimNiblockandRashidEl-Enany,bothfor-

mer directors of the IAIS, for their help in conference organization. I am also

gratefultotheexcellentsupportstaffatExeter–LauraScrivens,CatherineBelland

JaneClark–fortheirorganizationalassistanceduringtheconveningoftheconfer-

ence.IammuchobligedtoTerryGraham’skindhandineditingearlierdraftsofmy

proseandtoJasonElliot’seyeincriticallyscanningmytranslationsofḤāfiẓ’sverse

inthisvolume.

ANoteonTransliteration

TransliterationofPersianandArabicwordsinthisbookfollowsthetransliteration

tableoftheInternationalJournalofMiddleEasternStudies,exceptfortheletter‘ż’(zad)

whichisrenderedas‘ḍ’(asinArabic).PersianwordsofArabicorigin,suchasDīwān,

generally, but not exclusively, use ‘w’ instead of ‘v’ for the Arabic letterwa. The

diphthongsareconsistentlyrenderedas‘aw’and‘ay’.

LeonardLewisohn,13August2009

Notes

(^1) Dīvān-iḤāfiẓ,ed.Khānlarī,ghazal47:8.
(^2) See,inparticular,herTheOccultPhilosophyintheElizabethanAge.Also,cf.J.Vyvyan,Shakespeareandthe
RoseofLove:AStudyoftheEarlyPlaysinRelationtotheMedievalPhilosophyofLove.
(^3) SeeTedHughes,ShakespeareandtheGoddessofCompleteBeing,pp.18–61.
(^4) ThebeststudyofFicinoandShakespeareremainsJillLine,ShakespeareandtheFireofLove.
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