Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, lauded as the Indiana Jones of the art world, has solved another major case, recovering an ancient manuscript known as the Diwan of Hafez. Featuring the collected ...

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 ...

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer’s words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about his ...

Hafez, born in Shiraz in the 14th century, is widely regarded as one of the most influential Persian poets of all time. His works, compiled in the Divan of Hafez, explore themes of love, spirituality, ...

In “The World of Persian Literary Humanism,” Hamid Dabashi writes that “the physical beauty” of Hafez’s poetry is “above and beyond anything achieved before or after in Persian lyrics.” These days, ...

The 14th Century gave the world an amazing gift, a poet who was born in Shiraz/Iran, a master of lyric poetry also known as Gazal, a poet who has inspired generations upon generations of people and ...

He reviews the relationship between Hafez and Goethe and he focuses on Goethe’s “West-Eastern Divan” and how much he influenced by Hafez and Persian poetry in this work. His book “Alienation in ...

Hafiz, Diwan, dedicated to the library of Pir Budaq, copied by Shaykh Mahmud Pir Budaqi, Baghdad, dated 1462 AD Hafiz, Diwan, dedicated to the library of Pir Budaq, copied by Shaykh Mahmud Pir Budaqi, ...

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 ...

Li Shujing, Chair of the Foreign Languages Department Council at Peking University, and Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, Iran’s Ambassador to China, delivered speeches at the event. A number of professors and ...