Persian poet (1414–1492)
A 15th-century Persian poet whose mystical Sufi writings made him one of the Islamic world's most prolific theologians — parsing mercy, divine love, and metaphysics through verse that still anchors the Ibn Arabi tradition.
Born Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān in 1414, he became known simply as Jami and rose within the Naqshbandi Sufi order as both scholar and poet-theologian. His work fused eloquence with the metaphysics of the Khwājagānī tradition, analyzing mercy and the divine through a lens shaped by Ibn Arabi's mystical philosophy. He produced a sprawling body of literature — Haft Awrang, Layla wa Majnun, Tuhfat al-Ahrar, and others — that secured his place as a central voice in Sufi thought. He died in November 1492, two days past his seventy-eighth birthday, leaving a canon that would echo through Persian lette…
Sourced, dated quotes from Jami
Were Women all like those whom here I name, Woman to man I surely would prefer; The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame; The Moon, though masculine, depends on her.
Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense.
The wise man refuses to be led beyond his own depth.
Those who live by bread alone will submit, for the sake of it, to the vilest abuse, like a hungry dog.
Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.
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