IHCS Literary Interdisciplinary Research 2717-3224 2 3 2020 05 21 A study of Social and Historical Injuries of Eighth century AH in Hafiz’s Poetry A study of Social and Historical Injuries of Eighth century AH in Hafiz’s Poetry 235 259 4533 10.30465/lir.2020.4533 FA Mohammad Keshavarz Beyzai PhD in History, Department of History, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Journal Article 2019 12 24 The art and literature are the most trustable objects and can reflect the history of the society. The poets and the artist are the conscience and the voices of their time. The changes and transformations in the social and historical aspects could be put into literature if there is originality and subjectivity. The poems are predator and manifesto of the passion, impulses and numerous social pains, so it acts like a cutter cultural media and records varieties of the injuries and social and historical crisis of the country. As a historical and cultural memory of Persian society as well as one of the critics of historical and social situation in Eighth century AH, Hafiz received so many social and historical injuries in his time and reacted to them in his poems. This research with its historical approach and analytic-descriptive method concentrates on social and historical injuries in Eighth century AH in his divan. The findings show that Hafiz included the social and historical injuries of his time such as insecurity and instability, determinism and fatalism, treason, hypocrisy and duality, mistrust and the domination of viciousness over virtue for awareness of the readers. Hafiz suggested the probable alternatives and the solutions such as patience, willingness, faithfulness, love and monotheism, testing and pragmatism, wisdom and dervish versus this injuries. The art and literature are the most trustable objects and can reflect the history of the society. The poets and the artist are the conscience and the voices of their time. The changes and transformations in the social and historical aspects could be put into literature if there is originality and subjectivity. The poems are predator and manifesto of the passion, impulses and numerous social pains, so it acts like a cutter cultural media and records varieties of the injuries and social and historical crisis of the country. As a historical and cultural memory of Persian society as well as one of the critics of historical and social situation in Eighth century AH, Hafiz received so many social and historical injuries in his time and reacted to them in his poems. This research with its historical approach and analytic-descriptive method concentrates on social and historical injuries in Eighth century AH in his divan. The findings show that Hafiz included the social and historical injuries of his time such as insecurity and instability, determinism and fatalism, treason, hypocrisy and duality, mistrust and the domination of viciousness over virtue for awareness of the readers. Hafiz suggested the probable alternatives and the solutions such as patience, willingness, faithfulness, love and monotheism, testing and pragmatism, wisdom and dervish versus this injuries. http://lir.ihcs.ac.ir/article_4533_102a8a9e4efc2da3c6fb6d911246d13b.pdf