Contents

List of Contributors

List of Plates

Foreword: Hafiz of Shiraz -- Peter Avery

Editor's Introduction and Acnowledgements

PART I - HAFIZ IN THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND MYSTICAL MILIEU OF MEDIEVAL PERSIA

Prolegomenon to the Study of Hafiz

1 - Socio-historical and Literary Contexts: Hafiz in Shiraz -- Leonard Lewisohn

2 - The Mystical Milieu: Hafiz's Erotic Spirituality -- Leonard Lewisohn

PART II - HAFIZ AND THE SCHOOL OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL POETRY

The Principles of the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei

The Erotic Spirit: Love, Man and Satan in Hafiz's Poetry -- Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

The Radiance of Epiphany: The Vision of Beauty and Love in Hafiz's Poem of Pre-Eternity -- Leili Anvar

PART III - HAFIZ AND THE PERSIAN SUFI TRADITION

Hafiz and the Sufi -- Charles-Henry de Fouchecour

The Religion of Love and the Puritans of Islam: Sufi Sources of Hafiz's Anti-clericalism -- Leonard Lewisohn

Jalal al-Din Davani's Interpretation of Hafiz -- Carl W. Ernst

PART IV - HAFIZ'S ROMANTIC IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE OF LOVE

The Allegory of Drunkenness and the Theophany of the Beloved in Sixteenth-Century Illustrations of Hafiz -- Michael Barry

Transfiguring Love: Perspective Shifts and the Contextualization of Experience in the Ghazals of Hafiz -- James Morris

The Semiotic Horizons of Dawn in the Poetry of Hafiz -- Franklin Lewis

Hafiz and the Language of Love in Nineteenth-Century English and American Poetry -- Parvin Loloi

Bibliography

Index of Proper Names, Places, Works and Themes

Index of Persian and Arabic Technical Terms