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- Great scholars
- Poet and Sufi scholar
- Life
- 1414 – 1492
Great scholars
Abdurahman Jami
Seal of the poets
One of the last great classical Persian poets, author of the seven-part Haft Awrang. In Herat he was a close friend and mentor of Alisher Navoiy.
Key achievements
- Wrote the Haft Awrang, seven long poems including Yusuf and Zulaykha
- Wrote the Baharistan, a book of prose and verse modelled on Sa'di's Gulistan
- Compiled Nafahat al-uns, the lives of more than six hundred Sufis