Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Plates -- Foreword: Hafiz of Shiraz -- Peter Avery -- Editor's Introduction and Acnowledgements -- PART I - HAFIZ IN THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND MYSTICAL MILIEU OF MEDIEVAL PERSIA -- Prolegomenon to the Study of Hafiz -- 1 - Socio-historical and Literary Contexts: Hafiz in Shiraz -- Leonard Lewisohn -- 2 - The Mystical Milieu: Hafiz's Erotic Spirituality -- Leonard Lewisohn -- PART II - HAFIZ AND THE SCHOOL OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL POETRY -- The Principles of the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei -- The Erotic Spirit: Love, Man and Satan in Hafiz's Poetry -- Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab -- The Radiance of Epiphany: The Vision of Beauty and Love in Hafiz's Poem of Pre-Eternity -- Leili Anvar -- PART III - HAFIZ AND THE PERSIAN SUFI TRADITION -- Hafiz and the Sufi -- Charles-Henry de Fouchecour -- The Religion of Love and the Puritans of Islam: Sufi Sources of Hafiz's Anti-clericalism -- Leonard Lewisohn -- Jalal al-Din Davani's Interpretation of Hafiz -- Carl W. Ernst -- PART IV - HAFIZ'S ROMANTIC IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE OF LOVE -- The Allegory of Drunkenness and the Theophany of the Beloved in Sixteenth-Century Illustrations of Hafiz -- Michael Barry -- Transfiguring Love: Perspective Shifts and the Contextualization of Experience in the Ghazals of Hafiz -- James Morris -- The Semiotic Horizons of Dawn in the Poetry of Hafiz -- Franklin Lewis -- Hafiz and the Language of Love in Nineteenth-Century English and American Poetry -- Parvin Loloi -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names, Places, Works and Themes -- Index of Persian and Arabic Technical Terms.