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Shiraz is proud of being mother land of Hafiz Shirazi, Shiraz is a center for Iranian culture and has produced a number of famous poets. Saadi , a 12th- and 13th-century poet was born in Shiraz. He left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences at Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad .
There are two main stories about the origins of the Shirazi people. One thesis based on oral tradition and some written sources (ie: the Kilwa Chronicle) states that immigrants from the Shiraz region in southwestern Iran directly settled various mainland ports and islands on the eastern Africa seaboard beginning in the tenth century, in an area between Zanzibar in the north and Sofala in the ...
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Hafez was born in Shiraz in 1315 and died there in 1390. A beloved figure of the Iranian people, who learn his verses by heart, Hafez was prominent in his home town and held a position as the court poet. [1]
1400 – Shiraz is known as the city of Saadi and Hafez. Their tombs, still intact today, become shrines. 1410 – Shiraz prospers with a population of 200,000. For a few years it is the capital of the Turkmen Aq Qoyunlu rulers. 1470 – Mongols and Turkmen, the invaders, are soon ousted from the city.
Shiraz is the birthplace of the founder of the short-lived Babi movement, the Báb (Sayyid `Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, 1819-1850). In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he began discussions that led to his claiming to be an interpreter of the Qur'an, the first of several progressive claims between then and 1849.
Roknābād or Ruknābād (Persian: رکنآباد) is the name of a district on the north-east side of Shiraz, Iran, watered by a man-made stream of the same name.It was made famous in English literature in the translations of the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez made among others [1] by Gertrude Bell, who wrote (1897): [2]