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Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is the opening poem in the collection of Hafez's 530 poems. In this poem, Hafez calls for wine to soothe his difficulties in love. In a series of varied images he describes his feelings. He is advised to follow the advice of the Elder, and to achieve ...
v. t. e. Divan-i Kabir (Persian: دیوان کبیر), also known as Divan-i Shams (دیوان شمس) and Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi (دیوان شمس تبریزی), is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the ...
Qasem-e Anvar. Saif Farghani (d. 1348) Imadaddin Nasimi. Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez. Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din. Shah Nimatullah Wali. Maghrebi Tabrizi. Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar. Salman Savaji.
Rumi's ghazal 163, which begins Beravīd, ey harīfān "Go, my friends", is a Persian ghazal (love poem) of seven verses by the 13th-century poet Jalal-ed-Din Rumi (usually known in Iran as Mowlavi or Mowlana). The poem is said to have been written by Rumi about the year 1247 to persuade his friend Shams-e Tabriz to come back to Konya from ...
Naqdhā rā bovad āyā. Naqdhā rā bovad āyā is a short ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is no. 185 in the Qazvini-Ghani edition of Hafez's poems (1941). The poem is famous for a fine Persian miniature painting of 1585 illustrating the scene. In this poem Hafez advises hermits and ascetics to abandon ...
Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. A scene from the Shahnameh describing the valour of Rustam. Persian literature[ a ] comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It spans over two-and-a-half millennia.
Shirazi Turk is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet, Hāfez of Shiraz. It has been described as "the most familiar of Hafez's poems in the English-speaking world". [1] It was the first poem of Hafez to appear in English, [2] when William Jones made his paraphrase "A Persian Song" in 1771, based on a Latin version supplied by ...
Vis and Rāmin. Vis and Rāmin (Persian: ويس و رامين, Vis o Rāmin) is a classical Persian love story. The epic was composed in poetry by Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (or "Gorgani") in the 11th century. Gorgani claimed a Sasanian origin for the story, but it is now regarded as of Parthian dynastic origin, probably from the 1st century AD. [1]