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 | | Muhammed Shamsuddin, better known by his takhallus or "nom de plume" of Hanz, was one of the most celebrated writers of Persian lyrical poetry. |
 | | He was born at Shiraz, the capital of Fars, in the early part of the 8th century of the Mahometan era, that is to say, in the 14th of our own. |
 | | The above article was written by Edward Henry Palmer, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, 1871-81; murdered in Egypt, 1882, while serving on Government secret service; author of Arabic Grammar and Persian Dictionary. |
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