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The Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ

✍ Scribed by Hafiz

Publisher: Duke Classics
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 37 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1620129213

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✦ Synopsis

Connoisseurs of world literature need to spend some time acquainting themselves with the Divan of Hafiz, one of the foremost collections of Persian verse. Scholars agree this volume has exerted a singularly important influence on Middle Eastern culture, akin to Shakespeare's role in the sphere of Western letters.

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