Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1360
Hafiz born in Shiraz
1360
Shams al-Din Muhammad arrived in the Persian city famous for roses and theology students. Orphaned young, working in a bakery, he would memorize the Quran - earning the pen name Hafiz, 'the memorizer' - and become Persia's most beloved lyric poet. His Divan of ghazals on wine, beauty, and divine love remains the Persian language's hearth fire.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.