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Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
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Hardback. This study will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative Arabic-Persian literature, and the ghazal in related Islamic literatures such as Urdu and Ottoman Turkish. It is also of value to the field of comparative literature more widely - Hafiz was a key influence on notable nineteenth-century literary figures such as Goethe and Byron. Series: British Institute of Persian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
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, this book attempts a contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once socio-political, historical, and literary. Here, Hafiz’s ghazals (short, monorhyme, broadly amorous lyric poems) are read comparatively against similar texts composed by his less-studied rivals in the hyper competitive, imitative, and profoundly intertextual environment of fourteenth-century Shiraz. By bringing Hafiz’s lyric poetry into productive, detailed ... Read more
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, this book attempts a contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once socio-political, historical, and literary. Here, Hafiz’s ghazals (short, monorhyme, broadly amorous lyric poems) are read comparatively against similar texts composed by his less-studied rivals in the hyper competitive, imitative, and profoundly intertextual environment of fourteenth-century Shiraz. By bringing Hafiz’s lyric poetry into productive, detailed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Series
British Institute of Persian Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848851443
SKU
V9781848851443
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About Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Dominic Paarviz Brookshaw is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College.
Reviews for Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Brookshaw's work is a considerable and original contribution in the abundant historiography on Hafiz.
Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic)
Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic)