MUHAMMAD SHAMSIT’DDIN, better known by the nom de plume of Hâfiz, was born early in the fourteenth century of the Christian era. It is impossible to determine the exact date of his birth, but the ...

Shams al-Din Mohammad was born sometime between the years 1310-1337, in Shiraz, in Fars province, the city which is known as the city of love, poetry, and civilization. He memorized the Holy Quran by ...

Born in Iran's Shiraz in the early 14th century, Hafez is one of the classical masters of Persian poetry. Hafez received a classical religious education and lectured on Quranic and other theological ...

A POPULAR but unauthenticated story suggests that Hafiz Shirazi, the legendary Persian poet, was a soothsayer and clairvoyant. The story goes that Ghiasuddin, sultan of Bengal, had three favourite ...

Dr Khalid Hameed Shaida's rendering of Hafiz Shirazii (1320-1389 AD) in English and Urdu is really a pleasant exercise. I am confining myself here to the English translation of Hafiz as I have already ...

Just as Dante in the West set about writing the Paradiso, which was the last part of his immortal La Commedia, in 1319, there shone a bright star in the East that was to shine even brighter in the ...

In response to these concerns, the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, has ordered an investigation into the project. A delegation led by Mostafa ...

Hefez Shirazi, the unique pearl of culture and literature of Iran, is a renowned 14th-century Persian poet who is also celebrated worldwide. October 11 is designated National Hafez Day in the Persian ...