RUBA'IYAT OF JAHAN KHATUN Translation by Paul Smith & Rezvaneh Pashai Introduction & Notes by Paul Smith Jahan Khatun (1326-1416?) was the daughter of the king of one of Shiraz's most turbulent times... Masud Shah; pupil and lifelong friend of the world's greatest mystical, lyric poet, Hafiz of Shiraz; the object of crazed desire by (among others) Iran's greatest satirist, the obscene, outrageous, visionary poet Obeyd Zakani; lover, then wife of womanizer...
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