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Illustration of an Indian woman holding a flower
Splendours of the Subcontinent: Four centuries of South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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HAFIZ OF SHIRAZ

Divan-i Hafiz.

circa 1600

RCIN 1005018

Hafiz was a Persian poet much admired by the Mughals. His divan (collected poems) consists largely of ghazals (short lyric poems). These were intended to be sung, or at least spoken with heavy intonation, and were popular in Mughal court entertainments.
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