Poems From the Divan of Hafiz

ISBN: 9781330905265 出版年：2016 页码：153 Hafiz Forgotten Books

From this time onward the governors of the Persian provinces seem to have given a nominal allegiance now to the Sultan of Baghdad, now to the more distant Khalif. The position of Shiraz between Baghdad and Cairo must have resembled that of Venice between Rome and Constantinople, and, like Venice, she was obedient to neither lord.