Divan Hafez — The Complete Ghazals, Persian with English translation (EPUB + PDF) Price: 5.00 USD

The complete ghazals of Hafez of Shiraz in a single bilingual, line-by-line volume: ghazals 1 to 495, the poems whose rhymes run from the letter Alef to the letter Ye, 495 poems in 4,192 couplets, in the traditional order of the Divan.

Each Persian couplet appears in the original, followed immediately by its English translation, so a reader of either language can follow the verse in the other. The Persian is set in a clear modern typeface and reads right to left as it should; the English is plain and faithful rather than ornamental, keeping Hafez's images and turns of thought in his own order.

Hafez is the poet Iranians keep closest: his Divan sits in almost every Persian home, is opened for guidance on the longest night of the year, and is quoted in daily speech. The volume opens with a short preface on the Divan and on this bilingual method, and a contents list of every ghazal by number and first line.

Translated by Yahya Nazer, whose bilingual editions of Rumi, Saadi, Hafez, Attar, Khayyam and Ferdowsi number more than sixty volumes.

You receive the book in two formats: EPUB (Apple Books, Thorium, any e-reader app) and PDF (opens anywhere).