Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1396
Turko-Mongol traveler Hafiz dies in Shiraz
1396
The greatest Persian lyric poet died in his hometown after refusing repeated invitations to visit foreign courts, preferring his garden and his wine. Legend says Timur summoned him to Samarkand and grilled him about a verse offering up Bukhara and Samarkand for a beautiful Shirazi mole. Hafiz reportedly replied that such generosity had bankrupted him.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.