خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی

With Hafiz in Shiraz (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

Since I often blog about the medieval Sufi poet Hafiz and his tomb in Iran, some friends sent me last week’s NPR piece on his shrine complex in Shiraz. If you click on the link, you will see a photo of glass installed over the calligraphy decorating his marble grave. But as you can see in these photographs, there was no such glass placed over his poetic verses, when I was last at his side in Shiraz. If you travel to Iran, be sure to make time for a peaceful poetic pilgrimage to Hafiz…

Nastaʿliq calligraphy (Photo: Emily O'Dell)