Jami Born in Herat

1451

The Persian poet Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami, who would become the last great classical master of the Persian literary tradition, was born in the Timurid heartland of Khorasan. His mystical verses, prose romances, and Sufi treatises on the nature of divine love would be read and memorized from Istanbul to Delhi for centuries. He represented the final, magnificent flowering of a literary tradition stretching back six hundred years to Firdawsi's Shahnameh.