Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
by
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself,...