{"title":"Hafez","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"drunk-on-the-wine-of-the-beloved-100-poems-of-hafiz","title":"Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz","description":"The Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1326-1390) is a towering figure in Islamic literature--and in spiritual attainment as well. Known for his profound mystical wisdom combined with a sublime sensuousness, Hafiz was the supreme master of a poetic form known as the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e (pronounced \"guzzle\"), an ode or song consisting of rhymed couplets celebrating divine love. In this selection of his poems, wine and the intoxication it brings are the image that expresses this love in all its joyful abandon, painful longing, bewilderment, and surrender. Through ninety-five free-verse renditions, we gain entry into the mystical world of Hafiz's Winehouse, with its happy minstrels, its bewitching Winebringer, and its companions in drunken longing whose hearts cry out, \"More wine!\" Thomas Rain Crowe brings a new dimension to our growing appreciation of Hafiz and his wise drunkard's advice to the seekers of God: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this world of illusion, take nothing other than this cup of wine; \u003cbr\u003eIn this playhouse, don't play any games but love.","brand":"Hafiz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301110826,"sku":"9781570628535","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/drunk-on-the-wine-of-the-beloved-100-poems-of-hafiz-2378506.jpg?v=1762151370"},{"product_id":"green-sea-of-heaven-eighty-ghazals-from-the-diwan-of-hafiz","title":"Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthoritative edition of Hafiz's most important poems, including original Persian and brilliant English translations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRecent translations of Hafiz have been controversial. Omid Safi, an Islamic studies scholar at Duke, notes that \"there are so many fake translations of Hafiz floating around, offering 'versions' that have no earthly connection to anything that the Persian poet and sage of Shiraz named Hafiz ever said. Elizabeth Gray offers us something different: poetic translations rooted in close readings of the original Persian, developed in consultation with a native speaker scholar.\"A \"ghazal\" is usually understood to mean lyric poetry concerned with love. But what had been a courtly love lyric concerned with wine and physical beauty became, in the hands of Sufis like Farid ud-Díiacute;n 'Attar and Jalal ud-Dín Rumi, a way to describe a mystic's relationship with God. Ghazals also became a means of veiling from theological and political conservatives the Sufi belief in the possibility of an intuitive, personal union with God.Háaacute;fiz became the greatest of all Sufi poets, called the \"Tongue of the Invisible\" and the \"Interpreter of Mysteries.\" His command of the ghazal's traditional imagery and themes blends eroticism, mysticism, and panegyric into verse of unsurpassed beauty. His eighty ghazals are presented in this book. Persian originals appear on facing pages to brilliant English translations of Gray and Anvar.In the afterword, Persian scholar Daryush Shayegan notes how \"there is no antagonism between the earthly wine and the divine wine, just as there is none between profane love and the love of God, since one is the necessary initiation to the other.\"","brand":"Hafiz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301307434,"sku":"9781958972359","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/green-sea-of-heaven-eighty-ghazals-from-the-diwan-of-hafiz-9435217.jpg?v=1762151314"},{"product_id":"divan-of-hafiz-edition-of-complete-poetry","title":"Divan of Hafiz: Edition of Complete Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the Enchanting World of Hafiz and His Incomparable Love Poetry (\u003c\/b\u003eUpdated \u003cb\u003eMay 2023\u003c\/b\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf like me, you too fall in this trip, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHold the wine and cup upon your lap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are the lovers, burning our tracks, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin us if you can put up with the crap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eگر همچو من افتاده ی این دام شوی ای بس که خراب باده و جام شوی\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eما عاشق و رند و مست وعالم سوزیم با ما منشین اگرنه بدنام شوی\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShamsuddin Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi\u003c\/b\u003e (1320-1389), the great lyric Persian poet is known for his ghazals. He has published about 500 ghazals and 42 Rubaiyees. The most popular Persian book, Divan-e Hafez, is a pinnacle of Persian literature and is to be found in the homes of most Iranian people, who learn his poems by heart and still use them as proverbs and sayings. Hafiz's poems of intimate divine love spread through the East in his lifetime, then into the West. Adaptations, imitations, and translations of Divan-e Hafez exist in all major languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003etranslation\u003c\/b\u003e appearing in this book is by \u003cb\u003eHenry Wilberforce Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (1840 - 1905). Clarke's word-by-word translation fully conveys the Persian original. All of Hafez's ghazals are provided in this bilingual book in Persian and English languages. This book can be useful for Persian and English language speakers and enjoyable for poetry lovers of any age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDivan-e Hafiz\u003c\/b\u003e is a precious learning resource for Persian language learners or Persian literature students. Not only will poems improve your Persian language, but they'll help your understanding of Persian culture and literature. Students will have ample opportunities to enrich their Persian learning experience and extend a range of language abilities through exploring these ghazals and poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is also a perfect gift for those who appreciate Persian poetry and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished By: \u003cbr\u003ePersian Learning Center\u003cbr\u003ewww.persianbell.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hafiz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301372970,"sku":"9781636209012","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/divan-of-hafiz-edition-of-complete-poetry-4126440.jpg?v=1762151313"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/hafez.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}