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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 ...
The metre is known as hazaj and is the same as that of Shirazi Turk.Each bayt or verse is made of four sections of eight syllables each. In Elwell-Sutton's system, this metre is classified as 2.1.16, and it is used in 25 (4.7%) of Hafez's 530 poems.
The poem Mazra'-ē sabz-e falak ("the Green Farmland of the Sky") is a ghazal (love song) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.It has been called "the second most debated ghazal of Hafiz, the first being the Shirazi Turk". [1]
Sīne mālāmāl-e dard ast ("My heart is brimful of pain") is a nine-verse ghazal (love-song) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.It is no. 470 in the edition by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941) and 461 in the edition of Parviz Natel-Khanlari (1983).
Sālhā del talab-ē jām-e Jam az mā mīkard is a ghazal by the 14th-century Persian poet Hāfez of Shiraz.It is no. 142 [1] (but in the Ganjoor website, no. 143) in The Divān of Hafez by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941), and 136 in the edition of Parviz Natel-Khanlari (1983, 2nd ed.).
Torkān "Turks", in the language of Persian love poetry, is a metaphor frequently used for the beautiful youths who ravage the hearts of their lovers. (See Shirazi Turk.) Arberry quotes a verse of Saadi: "You carry off the heart of a city with a coquettish glance in just the same way as the slaves of the Banu Sa'd carried off the 'banquet of ...
The Institute of Ismaili Studies – Memoirs of a Mission: The Ismaili Scholar, Statesman and Poet, al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Din al-Shirazi Archived 2010-12-16 at the Wayback Machine; A Short sketch of the Life of Syedna Al-Muayyad-Fid-Din Al-Shirazi, Head Missionary of the Ismaili Sect; Al Muayyad fid din al Shirazi Article at Amaana.org
He wrote a poem to praise Fath Ali Shah Qajar during the former's visit to Tehran, and called him "Mojtahed of the Poets". He studied Arabic and Persian literature and had great interest in hekmat . He was familiar with French and English and was knowledgeable in mathematics and rhetoric .