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Biography

Name: Shams al-Din Hafiz
Birth Date: c. 1320
Death Date: 1390
Place of Birth: Shiraz, Fars, Persia
Place of Death: Shiraz, Persia
Nationality: Persian
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, professor

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Biography of Shams al-Din Hafiz
576 words, approx. 2 pages
Shams al-Din Hafiz (ca. 1320-1390) was a great Persian mystical poet who, as a professor of Koranic exegesis, composed some of the most sensitive and lyrical poetry ever produced in the Middle East. Hafiz was born in Shiraz, the capital of the province...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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ḤāFiẓ Shīrāzī Summary
1,276 words, approx. 4 pages
ḤᾹFIẒ SHĪRᾹZĪ (AH c. 726–792/c. 1326–1390 CE), in fuller form Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī, was a Persian lyric poet and...
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Hafez Information
4,372 words, approx. 15 pages
For other uses of "Hafez" see Hafiz (disambiguation). Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, or simply Hāfez (Persian: خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Hafez Assad
06/11/2000: 639 words, approx. 2 pages
Highlights of his life and key role in the Middle East. 1930: Born Oct. 6 in the small village of Kurdaha near Latakia into a peasant family of the minority Alawite Muslim sect. 1945: Active in movement against French rule under a...
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The Washington Post
The Myth of Hafez Assad
05/24/1996: 785 words, approx. 3 pages
No global troublemaker is more widely cultivated than President Hafez Assad of Syria. It is not simply that this tyrant, sometime obstructor of peace and patron of terrorism and drug trafficking has won American indulgence by cooperating in his fashion in the gulf war...
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AP News
Dutch kids stuck in embassy sent home
12/22/2006: 287 words, approx. 1 pages
Two children who lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus for nearly six months during a custody battle between their parents were reunited with their mother on Friday.Dutch courts had awarded custody to the mother, Janneke Schoonhoven, but the children traveled to Syria with their...
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AP News
Israeli Jew charged in terror plan
1/22/2007: 739 words, approx. 3 pages
Asaf Ben-David, an Israeli Jew, is facing charges of conspiring to carry out a terror attack with a wanted Palestinian militant _ his brother.The exceptional story of Ben-David, a 38-year-old father of four, begins in Tubas, a village in the West Bank, where he was...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Von R. M. Rehder
18,900 words, approx. 63 pages
In the following essay, Rehder critiques A. J. Arberry's analysis (see Further Reading) of the unity of Hafiz's ghazals and discusses his own conclusions on the subject.
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Critical Essay by A. J. Arberry
12,752 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Arberry, who has himself translated Hafiz's works, traces the history of English translations of the poems of Hafiz.
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Critical Essay by J. Christoph Bürgel
11,172 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Burgel argues that Hafiz's ghazals resist an easy understanding and must be examined as part of a large, complex, and ambiguous context.
 


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