Takmila-yi Nafaḥāt al-uns:

Regarded by many as the last great mystical poet of medieval Persia, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492) spent the greater part of his life in Herat. As a student he excelled in every subject he engaged in and appeared destined for an academic career. But then, in his early thirties, he went through a...

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Main Author: Lārī, ʿAbd al-Ghafūr (Author)
Other Authors: ʿĀbidī, Maḥmūd (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston BRILL 2017
Series:Persian E-Books Miras Maktoob
Miras Maktoob, ISBN: 9789004365452
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Summary:Regarded by many as the last great mystical poet of medieval Persia, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492) spent the greater part of his life in Herat. As a student he excelled in every subject he engaged in and appeared destined for an academic career. But then, in his early thirties, he went through a spiritual crisis that ended in his joining the Herat branch of the mystical Naqshbandiyya order, led by the charismatic Saʿd al-Dīn Kāshgharī (d. 860/1456). A protégé of three successive Timurid rulers in Herat, Jāmī's wide network of friendships and relations extended from spiritual and literary circles through the political to the academic. With 39.000 lines of verse and over 30 prose works to his name, Jāmī's literary production is impressive. In his biographical handbook on Sufi masters, the Nafaḥāt al-uns, Jāmī did not mention himself. This is why his student ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Lārī (d. 912/1506) wrote this biographical supplement to it
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9789004408098
9786002031334
DOI:10.1163/9789004408098

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