Hafez

Shams al-Din Mohammad, known as Hafez, was born in Shiraz around 1315 or 1325 and spent almost his whole life there; his nickname says that he knew the Quran by heart. He lived under the Injuid prince Abu Eshaq, whose fall he mourned, then under the Muzaffarid princes, Mobarez al-Din and Shah Shoja, who ruled the city in turn. Little is known for certain about his life: the early biographies mix legend with fact, and more than one scholar has looked in his poems for what the documents do not say. He died in Shiraz around 1390 and lies in the gardens of Mosalla.

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• PoetryThe Divan-i-Hafizدیوان حافظHafez · 1410Literature