Jami 420409 221372037 2008-06-24T06:28:08Z Jaraalbe 261435 revise categories [[Image:Jami Rose Garden.jpg|right|thumb|Illustration from Jami's ''Rose Garden of the Pious'', dated 1553. The image blends [[Persian literature|Persian poetry]] and [[Persian miniature]] into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature.]] {{For|the village named Jami|Jami, Vizianagaram}} '''Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami''' ({{lang-fa|نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی}}) ([[August 18]], [[1414]]&ndash;[[November 19]], [[1492]]) was one of the greatest [[Persian language|Persian]] poets in the [[15th century]] and one of the last great [[Sufi]] poets. His fame rests even more on his mystical authority than on his talents as a poet and writer. ==Biography== He was born in a village near Jam, then [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]], now located in [[Ghor Province]] of [[Afghanistan]], but a few years after his birth, his family migrated to the cultural city of [[Herat]] in present-day [[Afghanistan]] where he was able to study [[Peripateticism]], [[mathematics]], [[Arabic literature]], [[natural sciences]], and [[Islamic philosophy]] at the [[Nizamiyyah]] University of Herat. Afterwards he went to [[Samarqand]], the most important centre of scientific studies in the [[Islamic World]] and completed his studies there. He was a famous [[Sufism|Sufi]], and a follower of the [[Naqshbandiyyah]] Sufi Order. At the end of his life he was living in [[Herat]]. [[Image:Youth and his father.jpg|thumb|left|'''Youth seeking his father's advice on choosing a male lover'''<br> From the ''[[Haft Awrang]]'' of Jami, in the story "A Father Advises his Son About Love." ''See [[Nazar ill'al-murd]]'' [[Smithsonian Institution]], Washington, DC.]] ==Teachings== In his role as Sufi [[shaykh]], Jami expounded a number of teachings regarding following the Sufi path. In his view, [[love]] was the fundamental stepping stone for starting on the spiritual journey. To a student who claimed never to have loved, he said, "Go and love first, then come to me and I will show you the way."[http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_3_4.htm] ==Works== [[Image:Youth and suitors.jpg|thumb|right|'''Same youth conversing with suitors'''<br>Another illustration from the Haft Awrang]] Jami wrote approximately eighty-seven books and letters, some of which have been translated into English. His works range from prose to poetry, and from the mundane to the religious. He has also written works of history. His poetry has been inspired by the [[ghazal]]s of [[Hafez]], and his ''[[Haft Awrang]]'' is, by his own admission, influenced by the works of [[Nezami]]. ==Divan of Jami== Among his works are: *''Baharistan (Abode of Spring)'' Modeled upon the ''Gulistan'' of [[Saadi]] *''Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship)'' Biographies of the Sufi saints *''[[Haft Awrang]] (Seven Thrones)'' His major poetical work. The fifth of the seven stories is his acclaimed "[[Yusuf and Zulaykha]]" which tells the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife based on the Holy Quran. *''Lawa'ih'' A treatise on Sufism *''Diwanha-i Sehganeh (Triplet Divans) *''Tajnīs ’al-luġāt (Homonymy/Punning of Languages)'' A lexicographical work containing homonymous Persian and Arabic lemmata.<ref>Shīrānī, 6.</ref> ==See also== *[[Ghazal]] *[[Persian literature]] *[[List of Persian poets and authors]] *[[Nazar ill'al-murd]] ==Notes== <references/> ==References== * E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 {{OCLC|460598}} ISBN 90-277-0143-1 * Ḥāfiż Mahmūd Shīrānī. “Dībācha-ye awwal [First Preface].” In ''Ḥifż ul-Lisān [a.k.a. Ḳhāliq Bārī]'', edited by Ḥāfiż Mahmūd Shīrānī. Delhi: Anjumman-e Taraqqi-e Urdū, 1944. ==External links== {{wikisource author|Abdorrahman Jami}} *[http://www.poetry-portal.com/poets37.html Jami on PoetryPortal] *[http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/jami/jami.php Jami on Iran Chamber Society Website] *[http://beutel.narod.ru/write/yusuf.htm Jami's Yusuf and Zulaikha: A Study in the Method of Appropriation of Sacred Text] *[http://www.kellscraft.com/SALAMANandABSAL/SALAMANandABSALContentPage.html Jami's Salaman and Absal as Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 1904] {{Sufism}} {{Persian literature}} [[Category:1414 births]] [[Category:1492 deaths]] [[Category:Persian literature]] [[Category:Persian poets]] [[Category:Sufi poets]] [[Category:Iranian Sufis]] [[Category:Medieval poets]] [[Category:15th century writers]] [[Category:Pederasty in the Muslim world]] [[ar:عبد الرحمن الجامي]] [[bg:Джами]] [[de:Dschami]] [[fa:جامی]] [[fr:Djami]] [[kaa:Abdiraxman Ja'miy]] [[pl:Maulana Dżami]] [[ru:Джами]] [[simple:Jami]] [[sv:Abd al-Rahman Jami]] [[vi:Jami]] [[tg:Абдураҳмони Ҷомӣ]] [[tr:Cami (şair)]] [[ur:جامی]]