Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

Leonard Lewisohn is Lecturer in Persian and Sufi Literature at Exeter University. His previous books include The Art of Spiritual Flight: Farid al-Din 'Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition (I.B.Tauris, 2006, edited with Christopher Shackle) and The Heritage of Sufism, vols 1-3 (1999).

• List of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsForewordHafiz of ShirazPeter Avery (Cambridge University)I. Introduction: Hafiz in the Socio-historical and Literary Milieu of Medieval PersiaPart 1: Hafiz in ShirazCité de l’amourShiraz and the Galaxy of Fourteenth-century Persian PoetryThe Hafizocentricism of Persianate Civilization and the Qur’anHafiz’s Life and TimesHafiz in the Courtly Milieu of ShirazPart 2: Hafiz’s Erotic SpiritualityHafiz and the Inspired Libertine (rind)The Rindan: Mafia of Medieval PersiaHafiz’s Malamati Ethic and the Rite of Spiritual Vagabonds (qalandar?)The Inspired Libertine in Hafiz’s Erotic TheologyThe Art of Erotic Contemplation (shahid-bazi)The Erotic Gaze: Contemplation of Human Beauty sub specie aeternitatis (nazar-bazi)Part 3: The Scope and Contents of the VolumeAcknowledgementsLeonard Lewisohn (University of Exeter)II. Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian PoetryThe Principles of the Religion of Love in Classical Persian PoetryHusayn Ilahi-Ghomshei (Former Director, National Library of Tehran)The Erotic Spirit: Love, Man and Satan in Hafiz’s PoetryAli Asghar Seyed-Ghorab (Leiden University, The Netherlands)The Radiance of Epiphany: the Vision of Beauty and Love in Hafiz’s Poem of Pre-EternityLeili Anvar (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris)III. Hafiz and the Persian Sufi TraditionHafiz and the SufiC.H. de Fouchecour (Professeur emerite de l’Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III)The Religion of Love and the Puritans of Islam: Sufi Sources of Hafiz’s Anti-clericalismLeonard Lewisohn (University of Exeter)Jalal al-Din Davani’s Interpretation of HafizCarl W. Ernst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)IV. Hafiz’s Romantic Imagery and Language of LoveTransfiguring Love: Perspective Shifts and Contextualization of Experience in Hafiz’s GhazalsJames Morris (Boston College)Semiotics of the Dawn in the Poetry of HafizFranklin Lewis (University of Chicago)Hafiz and the Language of Love in Nineteenth-Century English and American PoetryParvin Loloi (Independent Scholar, U.K.)List of AbbreviationsBibliographyIndex

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