TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) Istanbul University Faculty of Literature has held a ceremony to commemorate Iranian famous poet Hafiz Shirazi.The ceremony was commissioned jointly by the Facultys Persian Literature Department and Cultural Section of Irans consulate in Istanbul where interested students and faculty staff attended on Monday.
Dr. Mehmet Atalay, Dr.Ali Gzelyz, Dr. Kavoos Hassanli, Dr. Kadir Turgut, Dr. Ahmet elik, and Dr.Gller Nuho?lu, of the Faculty teaching staff, and Javad Aminimanesh, the head of cultural affairs of the consulate also attended the ceremony.
The ceremony was started with a documentary featuring Hafizs life, works, and time. The keynote speaker was Dr. Hassanli, lecturer at Shiraz University and Visiting Professor of the Ministry of Science and Research at the University of Istanbul who delivered his speech, Hafiz and the Meaning of Life.
Dr. Hassanli addressed Hafizs social messages, and emphasizing upon the zeitgeist of his lifetime, highlighted his keenness of the vicissitudes of life and his general recommendations on happiness and tolerance. Hassanli said that Hafizs balanced and moderate view of the world and afterworld contributed to his popularity with men and women of his time, and giving examples of his verse (in Turkish translation), argued that elements of motifs of happiness and joviality made his poetry widely read by the public.
The second speaker was Serpil Ko Konuksever, PhD student and Faculty teacher assistant. Her speech featured Hafizs place in Persian and world literature and its significant impact on Turkish literature. She illustrated the case with lines from Divan of Emiri (a poet of Suleiman the Magnificent era) which was obviously under the influence of Hafiz.
She recited Emiris sonnet which he had composed adopting from the first sonnet of Hafiz, and pointed to the common elements in both sonnets. The third speaker was Dr. Gzelyz, the director of Persian Literature department, who touched Hafizs spiritual, social and political thought and his meticulous rendering of social evils of his time in lines of verse. He then explained some of key notions of the Divan of Hafiz.
He also recited a poem by Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkanis apostrophe to Hafiz.
By Mehr News Agency
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