Chapter 1: All Hail Shíráz
Opening quotation: Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, Wm. Heinemann Ltd., London, 1897, No. xxx.
[1] Browne, A Year Amongst the Persians, (1926 ed.), p. 284.
[2] Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, Vol. I, p. 497, n. 2.
[3] Browne (ed.), A Traveller's Narrative, Vol. II, p. 309.
[4] Since they originated from the small town of Baraghán, they were known as Baraghání.
[5] Qurratu'l-`Ayn's words are quoted in The Dawn-Breakers, p. 56 (Brit.), pp. 81-2 (U.S.); and in verse form in A Persian Anthology, trans. by E. G. Browne, ed. by E. Denison Ross, Methuen & Co., London, 1927, p. 72.