Azim Shahbakhsh; Omid Ghiasi
Abstract
Hafez’s poem is usually considered as a gnostic poem, but this approach neglects the historical situation. Opposite to gnostic poet, Hafez’s poems represent remarkable historical and social events in Shiraz. Encounter with other cultures and its combination with Old Iranian beliefs ...
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Hafez’s poem is usually considered as a gnostic poem, but this approach neglects the historical situation. Opposite to gnostic poet, Hafez’s poems represent remarkable historical and social events in Shiraz. Encounter with other cultures and its combination with Old Iranian beliefs caused to emerge many various thinking elements in late Sasanian era. One of those issues that continues during Islamic era is political thinking of ancient of Iran which is named Iranshahr’s thought. R.G. Collingwood is one of the philosophers who believes that all of history is history of thinking. According to his view, language is rooted in historical elements and it can be also said that literal texts link to historical situation of author. This paper aims to analyze Hafez’s thinking about according to history of thinking in Iran and based on Collingwood’s method. Also, It indicates the important aspects of Iranshahr’s thought in Hafez’s poem which is about historical events in Shiraz.
