Ahmad, Nazir. "A Very Old Source of Hafiz's Ghazals." Indo-Iranica XVIII, No. 1 (March 1965): 35-47.

Explores an early manuscript containing 126 ghazals of Hafiz, some of which have not generally been anthologized.

Arberry, A. J. "Orient Pearls at Random Strung." Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. XI, No. 4 (1946): 699-712.

Examination of William Jones's classic A Persian Song that considers how faithful it is to Hafiz's strongly thematic original. Also describes the difficulties peculiar to translating Persian into English.

——. Introduction to Fifty Poems of Hafiz, edited and translated by Arthur J. Arberry, pp. 1-34. Cambridge: The University Press, 1970.

Includes a biographical sketch, descriptions of extant manuscripts and possible models used by Hafiz, and assesses his overall contributions to literature.

Bashiri, Iraj. "Hafiz and the Sufic Ghazal." Studies in Islam, No. 1 (January 1979): 34-67.

Detailed study of two ghazals that attempts to provide evidence that Hafiz's poems are "unified pieces, composed around preconceived themes and written within the confines of predetermined structural descriptions."

Boyce, Mary. "A Novel Interpretation of Hafiz." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London XV, No. 2 (1953): 279-88.

Attacks G. M. Wickens's view that Hafiz's written words contain extensive and deliberate ambiguities because of their association with other words that look similar.

Hillman, Michael Craig. "Sound and Sense in a Ghazal of Hafiz." The Muslim World LXI, No. 2 (April 1971): 111-21.

Decries a lack of Hafiz studies which consider his poems in their entirety and as poems.

Schinmmel, Annemarie. "Hafiz and His Critics." Studies in Islam, No. 1 (January 1979): 1-33.

Surveys interest in Hafiz's work through the centuries, particularly Western studies and interpretations.

Wickens, G. M. "An Analysis of Primary and Secondary Significations in the Third Ghazal of Hafiz." Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London XIV, No. 3 (1952): 627-38.

Analysis of a particular poem that seeks to demonstrate that Hafiz made use of words which gain in allusive meaning by virtue of their etymological roots.