amir shafaghat

In a good many manuscripts and amended Divans of Hafiz, there appears a ghazal beginning thus: دوش از مسجد سوی میخانه آمد پیر ما چیست یاران طریقت بعد از این تدبیر ما This ghazal, according to many editors and experts on Hafiz, genuinely belongs to him, and there are even a good few scholars who believe that Hafiz has written this ghazal under the influence of Attar’s story about Sheikh-e San’ān. However, Mohammad Amin Riahi is of the opinion that this ghazal has been unjustifiably added to Hafiz’s Divan. Also, in his edition of the poet’s Divan, Salim Neisāri has placed this ghazal separately among the verses believed to have been added to the Divan at a later time. In the present study, the aforementioned ghazal is examined based on two important textological principles: codicology and stylistics so that authenticity level of the ghazal becomes clear.

"Acting in the Garden of Iranian Identity; Hafez's "Role Model" by Dr. Farhang Rajaei, a professor at Carlton University in Canada, is a book about Hafez, the main concern of the author is "Iranian acting and their rules" throughout history, and why Iranians with a great civilization and entering the age of Safavid civilization was left out of acting and role-playing in the world arena, and instead remained on the margins of history. The question is: whether it is possible to prepare Iran and Iranians to enter the modern world and create a new world by modeling the foundation of Hafez's thought and intellectual system, and that this system can be used as a successful guide for the acting and role-playing of Iranians? In this article, some of the views of the author of this book about Hafez and his leadership and the answers to the questions raised as well as some reasons for the lack of Iranian role-playing are discussed.