Jami

Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami was born in Jam in Khorasan and educated in Herat and Samarkand, mastering mathematics, Arabic philology, and Islamic theology. Associated with the Naqshbandi Sufi order, he became the premier intellectual luminary and court advisor to the Timurid Sultan Husayn Bayqarah and his minister Alisher Navoi in Herat.

Jami was a prolific polymath who authored over eighty treatises on music theory, Arabic grammar, biographies of Sufi saints (Nafahat al-Uns), and commentary on Ibn Arabi. His crowning poetic achievement, Haft Awrang (The Seven Thrones), includes the immortal allegorical romance Yusuf and Zulaikha, universally acknowledged as the closing masterpiece of classical Persian poetry.