37 Facts About Jami

Jami was primarily a prominent poet-theologian of the school of Ibn Arabi and a Khwajagani Sufi, recognized for his eloquence and for his analysis of the metaphysics of mercy.

Jami was born in Kharjerd, in Khorasan to a Persian family.

Jami was a mentor and friend of the famous Turkic poet Alisher Navoi, as evidenced by his poems:.

Jami embarked on a pilgrimage that greatly enhanced his reputation and further solidified his importance through the Persian world.

Jami had a brother called Molana Mohammad, who was, apparently a learned man and a master in music, and Jami has a poem lamenting his death.

Jami fathered four sons, but three of them died before reaching their first year.

The surviving son was called Zia-ol-din Yusef and Jami wrote his Baharestan for this son.

Jami's funeral was conducted by the prince of Herat and attended by great numbers of people demonstrating his profound impact.

Jami created a distinction between two types of Sufi's, now referred to as the "prophetic" and the "mystic" spirit.

Jami is known for both his extreme piety and mysticism.

Jami remained a staunch Sunni on his path toward Sufism and developed images of earthly love and its employment to depict the spiritual passion of the seeker of God.

Jami began to take an interest in Sufism at an earlier age when he received a blessing by a principal associate Khwaja Mohammad Parsa who came through town.

Jami followed Kasagari and the two became tied together upon Jami's marriage to Kasgari's granddaughter.

Jami was known for his commitment to God and his desire for separation from the world to become closer to God often causing him to forget social normalities.

Jami was engaged in the school of Ibn Arabi, greatly enriching, analyzing, and changing the school or Ibn Arabi.

Jami continued to grow in further understanding of God through miraculous visions and feats, hoping to achieve a great awareness of God in the company of one blessed by Him.

Jami believed there were three goals to achieve "permanent presence with God" through ceaselessness and silence, being unaware of one's earthly state, and a constant state of a spiritual guide.

Jami wrote about his feeling that God was everywhere and inherently in everything.

Jami defined key terms related to Sufism including the meaning of sainthood, the saint, the difference between the Sufi and the one still striving on the path, the seekers of blame, various levels of tawhid, and the charismatic feats of the saints.

Jami created an all-embracing unity emphasized in a unity with the lover, beloved, and the love one, removing the belief that they are separated.

Jami was in many ways influenced by various predecessors and current Sufi's, incorporating their ideas into his own and developing them further, creating an entirely new concept.

Jami continues to be known for not only his poetry, but his learned and spiritual traditions of the Persian speaking world.

Jami wrote approximately eighty-seven books and letters, some of which have been translated into English.

Jami's poetry has been inspired by the ghazals of Hafiz, and his famous divan Haft Awrang is, by his own admission, influenced by the works of Nizami.

Jami uses allegorical symbolism within the tale to depict the key stages of the Sufi path such as repentance and expose philosophical, religious, or ethical questions.

Jami completed this work perhaps around 1485, and in it he moves the emphasis from stories about Alexander's journey and conquest to short anecdotes that display notions of wisdom and philosophy.

Jami is known for his poetry influencing and being included with Persian paintings that depict Persian history through manuscript paintings.

The deep poetry Jami provides is usually accompanied with enriched paintings reflecting the complexity of Jami's work and Persian culture.

Jami worked within the Timurid court of Herat helping to serve as an interpreter and communicator.

Jami's poetry reflected Persian culture and was popular through Islamic East, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

Jami's poetry addressed popular ideas that led to Sufi's and non-Sufi's interest in his work.

Jami was known not only for his poetry, but his theological works and commentary on culture.

Jami's work was used in several schools from Samarqand to Istanbul to Khayrabad in Persia as well as in the Mughal Empire.

For centuries Jami was known for his poetry and profound knowledge.

Jami's poetry reached the Ottoman Empire, due to the poet Basiri emigrating to Istanbul.

Gavan invited Jami to migrate to India, but the latter politely refused citing the health issues of his mother.

The first Mughal emperor Zahir al-Din Babur, in his memoir Baburnama, referred to Jami as the "foremost authority of the age in all of the sciences and as a poet of such renown that the mere mention of his name is a source of blessing".