Divan of Hafiz (selections)
Selections from the Divan of Hafiz of Shiraz (c. 1320–1389) — mystical ghazals in which wine, the beloved, and the tavern operate as Sufi symbols for divine intoxication and union. Gertrude Lowthian Bell's 1897 translation.
Source context· Persian stream · Ancient Persian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Persian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Persian (2nd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 1380 CE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Divan of Hafiz (selections)
Persian Sufi lyric poetry as vehicle for mystical love, divine intoxication, and the soul's longing for the Beloved
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