Description
Book SynopsisShams al-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, a classical poet is broadly popular in his native Shiraz and in Iran as a whole, and among lovers of great verse traditions. This book provides a context for Hafez's poetry and is intended for medievalists, students of the Middle East, and specialists in urban studies.
Trade Review"Shiraz in the Age of Hafez lives up to the promise both of its title and its subject. Ambassador John Limbert..has evoked the life and history, both bloody and sublime, of Shiraz during the lifetime of the great Persian poet Hafez."
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Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Part One: History of Shiraz from Its Founding to the Conquest of Timur
1. History of Shiraz to the Mongol Conquest
2. Things Fall Apart: Shiraz under the Mongols and Their Successors
3. Shiraz as City-State: Abu Eshaq Inju and the Mozaffarids
Part Two: City of Roses and Nightingales
4. Peoples and Places
5. The City Administration
6. Shirazi Society: Patricians, Poets, and Scholars
7. A Very Special Place
Appendix: The First Families of Shiraz
Notes
Bibliography
Index
