Jami

Youth seeking his father's advice
Miniature illustration to the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story A Father Advises his Son About Love See Sufi outlook on male love
Freer and Sackler Galleries, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Persian youth playing chess with two suitors Illustration to the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story A Father Advises his Son About Love See Sufi outlook on male love
Freer and Sackler Galleries, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Youth conversing with suitors
Miniature illustration from the Haft Awrang of Jami, in the story A Father Advises his Son About Love. See Sufi outlook on male love
Freer and Sackler Galleries, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (August 18, 1414- November 19, 1492) was arguably the greatest Persian poet in the 15th century.

He was born in a village near 'Jam', but a few years after his birth, his family migrated to the cultural city of Herat where he was able to study Peripateticism, mathematics, Arabic literature, natural sciences and Islamic knowledge at the Nizamiyyah University of Herat.

Afterwards he went to Samarqand city, the most important center for scientific studies in the Islamic World and completed his studies there.

He was a famous Sufi, and a follower of the of the Naqshbandiyyah sufi Order.

Jami wrote approximately 87 books and epistles. Among them are: Divanha-ye Seganeh (Triplet Divans), the collection of Haft Owrang (Seven Thrones), Baharistan (Spring Land), Nafahat al-Uns.

Some of his quatrains have been translated into English. See the poetry on www.chishti.ru

See also

• Persian literature