# Hafiz's contemporaries

Artist galleries · hang 749 · 8 works

A few works by Hafiz, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## With their contemporaries

1. ["Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dancing-dervishes-folio-from-a-divan-of-hafiz-met-446892), Hafiz, ca. 1480. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/dancing-dervishes-folio-from-a-divan-of-hafiz-met-446892?hang=749)
2. ["Muhammad's Call to Prophecy and the First Revelation", Folio from a Majma' al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/muhammad-s-call-to-prophecy-and-the-first-revelation-folio-f-met-451418), Hafiz-i Abru, ca. 1425. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/muhammad-s-call-to-prophecy-and-the-first-revelation-folio-f-met-451418?hang=749)
3. [Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/folio-from-a-mu-nis-al-ahrar-fi-daqa-iq-al-ash-ar-the-free-m-met-447071), Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi, dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/folio-from-a-mu-nis-al-ahrar-fi-daqa-iq-al-ash-ar-the-free-m-met-447071?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries

4. [Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/folio-from-a-mu-nis-al-ahrar-fi-daqa-iq-al-ash-ar-the-free-m-met-451404), Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi, dated 741 AH/1341 CE. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/folio-from-a-mu-nis-al-ahrar-fi-daqa-iq-al-ash-ar-the-free-m-met-451404?hang=749)
5. ["Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/laila-and-majnun-at-school-folio-from-a-khamsa-quintet-of-ni-met-455041), Ja'far Baisunghuri, 835 AH/1431–32 CE. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/laila-and-majnun-at-school-folio-from-a-khamsa-quintet-of-ni-met-455041?hang=749)
6. [Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/royal-reception-in-a-landscape-left-folio-from-the-double-fr-cma-133448), Unrecorded Persian maker, 1444. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/royal-reception-in-a-landscape-left-folio-from-the-double-fr-cma-133448?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries, second

7. ["Zahhak is Told His Fate", Folio 29v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/zahhak-is-told-his-fate-folio-29v-from-the-shahnama-book-of-met-452113), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1524. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/zahhak-is-told-his-fate-folio-29v-from-the-shahnama-book-of-met-452113?hang=749)
8. ["The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night", Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-besotted-iranian-camp-attacked-by-night-folio-241r-from-met-452145), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1525–30. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hafiz/the-besotted-iranian-camp-attacked-by-night-folio-241r-from-met-452145?hang=749)

## Doors

- [More Persian painting and the book](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/persian-painting?hang=749&via=continue) (24 works)
- [15th-century Persia](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-persia?hang=749&via=continue) (10 works)