Hafiz Shirazi 2 (Poet of Love)

Birth

Date: Sometime between the years 1310-1325 a.d. or 712-727 A.H. The most probable date is either 1320, or 1325 a.d.

Place: Shiraz, in South-central Iran

Name Shamseddin Mohammad

Family Pen-Name Hafiz or Hafez (a title given to those who had memorized the Koran by heart. It is claimed that Hafiz had done this in fourteen different ways).

Full Title Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafiz-s ShiraziOther variations of spelling are: Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, or Khwaje Shams ud-Din Mohammed Hafiz-e Shirazi

Father: Baha-ud-Din

Brothers: He had two older brothers

Wife: Hafiz married in his twenties, even though he continued his love for Shakh-e Nabat, as the manifest symbol of her Creator's beauty.

Children: Hafiz had one child.