The Gift: Poems by the Great Sufi Master Summary
Hafez

The Gift: Poems by the Great Sufi Master Summary

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Hafiz is a poet in fourteenth-century Persia in the Sufi tradition that encompassed Gnosticism, the wisdom schools of Pythagoras and Plato as well as many of the principals and formulations of Islam. He was schooled in the traditional medieval tradition, which meant he studied Koranic law and theology, grammar, mathematics and astronomy. On his own, he studied calligraphy, which was the only permitted art in the Islamic world at the time...

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