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 Bara[_gh_]án, they were known as Bara[_gh_]ání.

[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.