Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

viii ḤāfiẓandtheReligionofLoveinClassicalPersianPoetry

LEONARDLEWISOHNisLecturerinPersianandIranHeritageFoundationFellowin

ClassicalPersianandSufiLiteratureattheUniversityofExeter,UK.

PARVIN LOLOIis a freelance scholar and writer who wrote her PhD thesis

(UniversityofWales,Swansea)onEnglishtranslationsofḤāfiẓandtheirinfluence

onEnglishpoetry.SheisauthorofHafiz,MasterofPersianPoetry:ACriticalBibliography

–EnglishTranslationssincetheEighteenthCentury(London2004).

JAMES MORRIS held (1999–2006) the Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies at the

University of Exeter, and has taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at

Princeton,TempleUniversity,theSorbonne,andtheInstituteofIsmailiStudiesin

ParisandLondon.HeiscurrentlyProfessorofIslamicStudiesatBostonCollege.

ALIASGHARSEYED-GOHRABisLecturerinPersianLanguage,LiteratureandCulture

atLeidenUniversity.

List of Plates

Heavenly and Earthly Drunkenness.BySulṭān-Muḥammad,probablypaintedin

Herāt,AD1526or1527.PagefromaDīvānofḤāfiẓ.HarvardArtMuseum,ArthurM.

Sackler Museum, Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. Partially

owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum,

Harvard University, 1988. In honour of the students of Harvard University and

Radcliffe College, 1988.460.3. Photo: Allan Macintyre © President and Fellows of

HarvardCollege.

Incident in a Mosque. By Shaykh-Zāda, probably painted in Herāt, AD 1526 or

1527.Painting(recto,text;verso,folio77r)fromaDīvānofḤāfiẓ,left-handsideofa

bifolio.HarvardArtMuseum,ArthurM.SacklerMuseum,GiftofStuartCaryWelch,

Jr.,1999.300.2.Photo:AllanMacintyre©PresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege.

Lady Belovéd within the Prayer-Niche, Holding A Sprig of Narcissi. By

Muḥammadī of Herāt, ca. AD 1565. Detached album leaf. Soudavar collection, on

loantotheSacklerGalleryofArt,Washington,D.C.

Majn∑n First Sees Layl∞in the Mosque-School within the Prayer-Niche. By

Bihzādorhisfellow-painterQāsim‘Alī.Herāt,AD1494.IllustrationtoaKhamsaof

Niẓāmī;BritishLibrary,Or.68100,folio106verso.

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