Häfiz (13201391)

Häfiz, his real name Shems-Eddin-Mohammed, the great lyric poet of Persia, born in Shiraz, where he spent his life; he has been called the Anacreon of Persia; his poetry is of a sensuous character, though the images he employs are Interpreted by some in a supersensuous or mystical sense; Goethe composed a series of lyrics in imitation; the name Häfiz denotes a Mohammedan who knows the Korân and the Hadith by heart (13201391).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich * Hagar
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Haden, Sir Francis Seymour
Hades
Hadith
Hadji
Hadleigh
Hadley, James
Hadley, John
Hadramaut
Hadrian
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich
Häfiz
Hagar
Hagedorn
Hagen
Hagenau
Hagenbach, Karl
Haggadah
Haggai
Haggard, Rider
Haggis
Hagiographa

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Häfiz in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable