Jami

Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami was born on 7 November 1414 in the district of Jam, in Khorasan. He studied in Herat and then in Samarkand, joined the Naqshbandi Sufi order and spent his life in Herat, apart from two pilgrimages, to Mashhad and to the Hejaz. Courted by many princes, he turned down most of their offers for the life of a mystic and scholar. Teacher and friend of the poet Alisher Navoiy, he wrote the Baharestan, the Nafahat al-uns, lives of Sufi saints, and the Haft Awrang. He died in Herat on 9 November 1492.

In the catalogue 1

• Poetryلیلی و مجنونJami · 1484not translated into EnglishLiterature