Born in Iran's Shiraz in the early 14th century, Hafez is one of the classical masters of Persian poetry. Hafez received a classical religious education and lectured on Quranic and other theological ...

October 11 is designated National Hafez Day in the Persian calendar. It is a day in which the great Persian poet Hafez is honored in Iran. Every year Hafez Commemoration Week is held during the week ...

Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book “Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz.” According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world’s version ...

To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna during the last year, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians. He has translated into German, besides the “ Divan ” of Hafiz, specimens of two ...

The book entitled “Hafez Love Poems in the Mirror of German Poetry” (“Hafis’ Liebeslyrik im Spiegel der Deutschen Dichtung”) has been released by Konigshausen & Neumann in Wurzburg. “Hafez is the most ...

The session was organized by the Iranian Society of Cultural Works and Luminaries to commemorate Hafez National Day, just two days before its due date. Several literati, including Mir Jalaleddin ...

This is the time of the year where every day I get a handful of requests to track down the original, authentic versions of some famed Muslim poet, usually Hafez or Rumi. The requests start off the ...

Shiraz (Iran) (AFP) – When Iranians worry about life's big questions, many seek answers in the works and wisdoms of Persia's most revered poet, Hafez -- sometimes with the help of a parakeet. Retired ...

Hefez Shirazi, the unique pearl of culture and literature of Iran, is a renowned 14th-century Persian poet who is also celebrated worldwide. October 11 is designated National Hafez Day in the Persian ...

THE squire loved his limes, elms, and oaks, but he loved his roses, too. They festooned the transoms of the old mullioned windows of the parlors, and might be gathered from the casement of my lady’s ...