ABSTRACT
JL Timur Gurkan, and in the days of the overthrow of the realm of Sultan Zain al-‘Abidin, immunity was granted to the people of Shiraz. As the poet Hafiz was amongst those who dwelt in that city, being a householder in a certain quarter of the town, his name appeared on the list of those required to pay indemnity, and the tax-collector received instructions to exact a certain sum from him. In this situation the poet appealed to the afore-mentioned Amir, declaring himself to be bankrupt and penniless. The aforesaid Amir remarked, “ You are the man who uttered the verses:
My Shiraz Turk if she but deign To take my heart into her hand, I’ll barter for her Hindu mole Bukhara, yea, and Samarqand.
