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Traditional attribution

Rubaiyat (attributed quatrains)

رباعیات (Roba'iyat)

Hafez en una miniatura del siglo XVIII
byHafez

Quatrains on themes of wisdom, love and wine, the short form par excellence of Persian poetry. Unlike the secure ghazals, Hafez's corpus of rubaiyat is unstable: it grows and shrinks from one manuscript to another and shares pieces with the floating repertoire of quatrains also ascribed to Khayyam and others. They found favour in the West through versions such as that of Syed Abdul Majid and L. Cranmer-Byng (1910).

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Authorship note

The Qazvini-Ghani edition contains 42 quatrains and Hammer-Purgstall translated 72, but most also circulate under other poets' names and their attribution to Hafez is weak; the Gorakhpur anthology of 824/1421 includes only 26. They are recorded as an attributed work.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Rubá'iyát of Háfiz

    John Murray (Wisdom of the East), 1910

    Translation: Syed Abdul Majid y L. Cranmer-Byng

Français

  • Roubâyyât de Hâfiz et d'Omar Khayyâm

    F. Lebègue, 1921

Other works by Hafez

Sources

  • Khorramshahi, Baha al-Din y EIr. «HAFEZ vi. Printed Editions of the Divān of Hafez». Encyclopaedia Iranica. Publicado el 15-12-2002.

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