Excerpts of ghazals (“GUZZ-alls”) from one of these collections are engraved on a poet’s tomb in Shiraz. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this term for near Eastern collections of poems by a single author, one of which contains the surviving works of the Sufi poet Hafez (“hah-FEZ”).
ANSWER: divans [or diwans]
[10e] Hafez’s Divan is written in this language, which was used for the Rubaiyat (“ROO-by-at”) and many Iranian poems.
ANSWER: Persian [or Farsi; accept New Persian or Early New Persian or Modern Persian]
[10m] This other Sufi poet used Persian to write the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi, which honored his teacher. Very loose translations have popularized this poet’s Spiritual Couplets, or Masnavi.
ANSWER: Rumi [or Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi; or Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi; accept Mevlana or Mowlana or Mevlevi or Mawlawi]
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