Literature: The Mystery of Hafez مقالة

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My Hafez would gently crawl out from the small window of the picture, and only then would I realize that he was not hunched, but had a tall stature, and amazingly, like some Qashqai people from the foothills of Fars, he would look at me with beautiful hazel-green eyes and, with a kind smile, stretch out that hand of his, which had not been painted in the book, towards me— would stretch out, and hand in hand, we would go to the flower-filled gardens of Shiraz... According to Mahmoud Giti, the historian of the Al-Muzaffar dynasty, Shah Shuja, from the age of 7 to 9, in 724 [meaning about twenty-five years before his father, Amir Mubarak, conquered Shiraz], had completed the memorization of the Word of Allah. However, he was certainly contemporary with the greats I mention, and he had seen some of them or at least their works: Ala al-Dawla Samanani and Awadhi Maraghei (both died 737) Sheikh al-Islam Amin al-Din Buliyani (died 747) Rukn al-Din Sayin, who also composed poetry in praise of Shah Shuja (died 747) Ibn Yamin Fayrumadi (died 797) Ubayd Zakani (died 777) Qavam al-Din Abdullah, one of Hafez's teachers (died 777) Imad Faqih and Nasir Bukhari (both died 777) Salman Savaji (died 787) Mir Sayyid Sharif Jurjani (who entered Shiraz in 787) Junayd Shirazi (died 797) Imad al-Din Arabshah (died 797) Qadi Adud al-Din Iji (died before 757) Jamal al-Din Haji Munshi al-Mamalik, author of Gharayib al-Akhbar and Nawadir al-Athar Muhammad bin Mahmud bin Muhammad Shabankaraei Sharaf al-Din Buliyani Qutb al-Din Muhammad Fali Sharaf al-Din Zahid Qayri Ghiyath al-Din Lutfullah Abarqawi Ghiyath al-Din Mansur Jalal al-Din Akkasheh Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini and...