Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafiz

Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

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Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafiz
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Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

Monkfish Book Publishing

Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

by Hafiz

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 Authoritative edition of Hafiz's most important poems, including original Persian and brilliant English translationsRecent 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."
Book Details
Publisher:
Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN:
9781958972359
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Authors:
Hafiz
Published Date:
2024-12-03
Language:
English, Persian
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About Hafez

A Persian poet who worked in the ghazal form, Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafez (c. 1315–1390) lived nearly his whole life in Shiraz, in present-day Iran. The name Hafez, meaning one who has memorized the Quran, reflected the classical religious education he received; he lectured on Quranic and theological subjects and wrote commentaries on religious texts. A court poet, he held the patronage of several rulers of Shiraz, though he fell from favor around 1368–69 and did not regain his position until shortly before his death. His collected Divan has been translated and reprinted widely since.

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