

Hafiz and His Contemporaries
Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Samenvatting
This study will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative Arabic-Persian literature, and the ghazal in related Islamic literatures such as Urdu and Ottoman Turkish. It is also of value to the field of comparative literature more widely - Hafiz was a key influence on notable nineteenth-century literary figures such as Goethe and Byron.