For the first time, in one, book, are the three most popular English translations of the Qur an: the ones by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir. Two of them, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Muhammad Habib Shakir are Arabic scholars[...]
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 o[...]
This study will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative Arabic-Persian literature, and the ghazal in related Islamic literatures such as Urdu and Ottoman Turkish. It is also of value to the field of comparative literature more widely - Hafiz was a key influence on notable nineteenth-c[...]
DIVAN of HAFIZ (Special 30th Anniversary Volume) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith This is another completely revised one volume edition of the only modern, poetic version of Hafiz's masterpiece of 793 ghazals, masnavis, ruba'is, qasidas, qit's and other poems/songs. The spiritual and historical[...]
This book offers a study of West-East cross-cultural and cross-contextual literacy by investigating Goethe's relationship to the poetics of fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in the West-oestlicher Divan. Goethe's collection of poetry, this book argues, constitutes a turning point in the history [...]
Hafiz of Shiraz whose poems inspired Goethe to compose his -West-ostlicher Divan- is the most highly esteemed and most popular among the masters of Persian poetry. The seven essays gathered in this volume - which is being published in commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the poet's death - expl[...]
Hafiz är Irans mest levande klassiker och en monumentalgestalt i persiskt kulturliv, ständigt värd att läsas om och om igen. Ingen mindre än Goethe värderade hans dikter som lyriska mästerverk, verkliga pärlor i världslitteraturen.
Hafiz estetiska och filosofiska åskådning känne[...]
Hafiz Imran är uppvuxen i Pakistan och ville tidigt i sitt liv göra något som hade betydelse för mänskliga rättigheter i sitt hemland. Han kom snabbt in på reporterbanan och efter praktik och utbildning började han arbeta på en lokal TV-station i Sialkot, sin födelsestad. Efter tio år had[...]