Hafiz

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Hafiz or Hafez (Arabic: حافظ ‎‎, "one who remembers" lit. "keeper") may mean:

• Hafiz (Quran), a term used by Muslims for people who have completely memorized the Qur'an
• Al-Ḥafīẓ, one of the names of God in Islam
• Hafez or Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, a 14th-century Persian mystic and poet. Sometimes credited as "Hafiz" or "Hafiz of Shiraz"
• Hafiz, a Malaysian singer
• Al-Hafiz (d. 1149), the eleventh Caliph of the Fatimids
• Abdel Halim Hafez (1929–1977), Egyptian singer and actor
• Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000), president of Syria 1971–2000
• Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
• Suleiman Hafez (born 1941), Jordanian economist and politician
• Hafiz (horse), French Thoroughbred racehorse
• Hafez, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran