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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī

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Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī was born in 1414 in Jām, in Khorasan, and died in Herat, in present-day Afghanistan, in 1492. Scholar and Sufi Trained in Herat and Samarkand in religious sciences, Arabic language and philosophy, Jāmī followed the Naqshbandiyya Sufi path, of which he became a respected master. He lived in Herat, the cultural capital of the Timurids, where he was close to the poet and minister ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī. The poet His seven great poems, brought together under the title Haft Awrang (“The Seven Thrones”), include Yūsuf and Zulaykhā, a story inspired by surah Yūsuf, and Salāmān and Absāl. The Bahāristān (“The Spring Garden”), in prose and verse, is written on the model of Saʿdī’s Gulistān. He also left three collections of lyric poems. The spiritual writer Nafaḥāt al-uns is a large collection of biographies of Sufi saints and masters. Lawāʾiḥ and other treatises set out his spiritual doctrine, in line with Ibn ʿArabī. He also wrote in Arabic, notably a very studied grammar commentary. Photo: miniature representing Jāmī.