Hafiz (Arabic: حافظ‎, ḥāfiẓ, pl. huffāẓ, f. ḥāfiẓa), literally meaning 'guardian' or 'retentive', is a term used by modern Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Qur'an.

The prophet Muhammad lived in the 7th century CE, in Arabia in a time when many people were not literate. The Arabs preserved their histories, genealogies, and poetry by memory alone. When Muhammad proclaimed the verses later collected as the Qur'an, his followers naturally preserved the words by memorizing them.

Early accounts say that the literate Muslims also wrote down such verses as they heard them. However, the Arabic writing of the time was a scripta defectiva, an incomplete script, that did not include vowel markings or other diacritics needed to distinguish between words. Hence if there was any question as to the pronunciation of a verse, the memorized verses were a better source than the written ones. The huffaz were also highly appreciated as reciters, whose beautifully intoned words were accessible even to the illiterate. Memorization required no expensive raw materials (in an age when there was no paper in the Muslim world, only vellum). Memorization was also considered more secure — a manuscript could easily be destroyed, but if the Qur'an was to be memorized by many huffaz, it would never be lost.

Hafiz or Hafez (Arabic: حافظ ‎) may mean:

The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/kor-AHN; Arabic: القرآن‎ al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kuran, and Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God (Arabic: الله‎, Allah). It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language.

The Quran is composed of verses (Ayah) that make up 114 chapters (suras) of unequal length which are classified either as Meccan (المكية) or Medinan (المدينية) depending upon the place and time of their claimed revelation. Muslims believe the Quran to be verbally revealed through angel Jibrīl (Gabriel) from God to Muhammad gradually over a period of approximately 23 years beginning in 610 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death.

Nawab Ghazi Khan Mirani (Balochi, Saraiki, Urdu غازی خان میرانی) was the son of Haji Khan Mirani, a powerful Balochi chieftain living in modern-day Pakistan.

The Derajat had its existence as an historical area to the Baloch immigration in the fifteenth century. Sultan Husain, the Langah Dynasty's Sultans of [[Multan], being unable to hold his trans-Indus possessions, called in Baloch mercenaries, and assigned these territories to Malik Sohrab Dodai in jagir. Sohrab's sons, Ismail and Fateh Khan, founded the two Deras or `settlements' named after them ; while Haji Khan, father of Ghazi Khan and the head of the old Mirani tribe of the Balochis, who had also entered the service of the Langahs, assumed independence in the reign of Sultan Mahmud, Sultan Husain's grandson, and founded Dera Ghazi Khan, naming it after his son and successor in the 1476 on the western bank of the Indus River. Haji Khan died in 1494. The tract was a deserted waste but contained a few isolated towns. The Miranis soon came into conflict with the Nahars, who ruled the country on the Indus to the south, the boundary between the rival powers lying north of Rajanpur ; but the Miranis also held some territory east of the Indus in Muzaffargarh District.