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Orange Code:33020
Paperback:359 pages
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1. Socio-historical and Literary Contexts: Hafiz in Shiraz -- Leonard Lewisohn2. The Mystical Milieu: Hafiz's Erotic Spirituality -- Leonard Lewisohn3. The Principles of the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei4. The Erotic Spirit: Love, Man and Satan in Hafiz's Poetry -- Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab5. The Radiance of Epiphany: The Vision of Beauty and Love in Hafiz's Poem of Pre-Eternity -- Leili Anvar6. Hafiz and the Sufi -- Charles-Henry de Fouchecour7. The Religion of Love and the Puritans of Islam: Sufi Sources of Hafiz's Anti-clericalism -- Leonard Lewisohn8. The Allegory of Drunkenness and the Theophany of the Beloved in Sixteenth-Century Illustrations of Hafiz -- Michael Barry9. Transfiguring Love: Perspective Shifts and the Contextualization of Experience in the Ghazals of Hafiz -- James Morris10. Hafiz and the Language of Love in Nineteenth-Century English and American Poetry -- Parvin Loloi
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The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical philosophy of the classical Persian love-lyric (ghazal) as particularly exemplified by Hafiz (who, along with Rumi and Sa'di, is Persia's most celebrated poet). For the first time in western literature, Hafiz's rhetoric of romance is situated within the broader context of what scholars refer to as ""Love Theory"" in Arabic and Persian poetry in particular and Islamic literature more generally. Contributors from both the West and Iran conduct a major investigation of the love lyrics of Hafiz and of what they signified to that high culture and civilization which was devoted to the School of Love in medieval Persia. The volume will have strong appeal to scholars of the Middle East, medieval Islamic literature, and the history and culture of Iran.
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