Shams-ud-Dīn

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Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf given name
person
activeIn Shiraz, Iran
surface form: Shiraz
alsoKnownAs Hafez
Hafez
surface form: Hafez of Shiraz

Hafez
surface form: Hafiz
burialPlace Hafezieh
surface form: Hafezieh, Shiraz

Tomb of Hafez
centuryActive 14th century
countryOfOrigin Iran
culture Persian culture
era Islamic Golden Age
surface form: Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
ethnicity Persian
fieldOfWork Persian literature
floruit 14th century
genre ghazal
lyric poetry
hasCanonicalName Hafez
surface form: Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
hasGivenName Shams-ud-Dīn self-link
honorificMeaning Apostle of Light
surface form: Sun of the Faith
honorificTitle Hafez
honorificTitleMeaning one who has memorized the Quran
influenced Friedrich Rückert
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Persian poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Urdu ghazal tradition
influencedBy Quran
Sufi mysticism
knownFor mastery of the Persian ghazal
mystical and lyrical poetry
languageOfName Persian
literaryTradition Persian ghazal
movement Sufism
nationality Persian
nativeName Shams-ud-Dīn self-linksurface differs
surface form: شمس‌الدین
notableWork Divan of Hafez
occupation lyric poet
poet
placeOfBirth Shiraz, Iran
surface form: Shiraz

Shiraz, Iran
placeOfDeath Shiraz, Iran
surface form: Shiraz

Shiraz, Iran
region Fars Province
surface form: Fars
religion Islam
subjectOf Hafez studies

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Hafez givenName Shams-ud-Dīn
Hafez birthName Shams-ud-Dīn
this entity surface form: Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad
Shams-ud-Dīn hasGivenName Shams-ud-Dīn self-link
Shams-ud-Dīn nativeName Shams-ud-Dīn self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: شمس‌الدین