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1 Pre | surname of Hafiz, was born in Shiraz in the early part of the
2 Pre | of his life was spent in Shiraz, and he died in that city
3 Pre | province of Fars, of which Shiraz is the capital, in the name
4 Pre | passing through the streets of Shiraz in the hands of their captors,
5 Pre | by Abu Said, and induced Shiraz to submit again to his rule.
6 Pre | Hussein, took possession of Shiraz and Isfahan, finally ousting
7 Pre | Khalif. The position of Shiraz between Baghdad and Cairo
8 Pre | into quiet waters. In 1340 Shiraz was besieged and taken by
9 Pre | year he returned, captured Shiraz by a stratagem, and again
10 Pre | into Fars and laid siege to Shiraz. Abu Ishac, whose life was
11 Pre | fidelity of the people of Shiraz, he put to death all the
12 Pre | Mahommad, who sent him to Shiraz and, with a fine sense of
13 Pre | Ibn Batuta, who visited Shiraz between the years 134o and
14 Pre | was not unpopular even in Shiraz: on a certain occasion he
15 Pre | 1393, when Timur conquered Shiraz for the second and last
16 Pre | laid low. He had overcome Shiraz and Tabriz and Irak; at
17 Pre | Shah Shudja reigned in Shiraz, and his brother Shah Yahya
18 Pre | in. the wildest orgies in Shiraz. He was scarcely less cruel
19 Pre | foresee much disturbance in Shiraz; Kerman is the home of our
20 Pre | Southern Persia and took Shiraz. Zein-el-Abeddin sought
21 Pre | of the second conquest of Shiraz in 1393. The confusion between
22 Pre | before 1393. Timur bestowed Shiraz upon Shah Yahya, uncle to
23 Pre | and possessed himself of Shiraz. Hafiz did not live to see
24 Pre | among the poor scholars of Shiraz. Both on account of their
25 Pre | would be no peace for him in Shiraz while one member of the
26 Pre | tradition, of a baker of Shiraz, in which city he was probably
27 Pre | among the learned men of Shiraz. Sheikh Mahmud did not give
28 Pre | Hafiz must have been in Shiraz when Abu Ishac was brought
29 Pre | passed beyond the gates of Shiraz." But an occasional bandying
30 Pre | of Baghdad. He founded in Shiraz a college for Hafiz, in
31 Pre | Moreover, a devoted lover of Shiraz, Hafiz was overcome with
32 Pre | to have been absent from Shiraz at the time of Mansur's
33 Pre | overpast; I will return to Shiraz through the favour of my
34 Pre | it and upon his beloved Shiraz. There is a short poem full
35 Pre | and a fortunate return to Shiraz, which may perhaps refer
36 Pre | garden of Mosalla outside Shiraz, a garden the praises of
37 Pre | Sultan Baber conquered Shiraz, he erected a monument over
38 V | V~* OH Turkish maid of Shiraz! in thy hand~If thou'lt
39 V(*) | conqueror Timur entered Shiraz it is related that he summoned
40 V(*) | inhabited the country between Shiraz and Isfahan. Their young
41 V(*) | the wealthy inhabitants of Shiraz. Sir Henry Layard met with
42 IX(*) | founded a college for Hafiz in Shiraz. With true Persian exaggeration
43 XVIII(*)| four Persian miles from Shiraz there is a spot called Pir-i-Sabz,
44 XVIII(*)| with a beautiful girl of Shiraz called Shakh-i-Nahat, and
45 XXI(*) | pay for his journey from Shiraz. Hafiz resolved to accept
46 XXI(*) | best of his way back to Shiraz, sending to Feiz Allah this
47 XXX | XXX~* ALL hail, Shiraz, hail! oh site without peer!~
48 XXX | ambergris--~Oh, come to Shiraz when the north wind blows!~
49 XXX(*) | distance of a mile from Shiraz, the pass of Allahu Akbar.~
50 XXX(*) | Hafiz therefore claims for Shiraz the protection of him who
51 XXX(*) | Arab traveller who visited Shiraz about the year 1340, has
52 XXX(*) | of his contemporaries. "Shiraz," he says, "is a well-built
53 XXX(*) | fine race and well clad. Shiraz lies in a plain; gardens
54 XXX(*) | night. The inhabitants of Shiraz are well-to-do, pious, and
55 XXX(*) | clothes. The citizens of Shiraz make parties of pleasure
56 XXX(*) | also. May God have mercy on Shiraz!" he concludes piously.~
57 XXXIX(*)| should be sent to Hafiz of Shiraz, the fame of whose great
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