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Jami, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad

الجامي عبد الرحمن بن أحمد

1414 CE · 817 AH – 1492 CE · 898 AH

The Persian poet and Sufi of Jam — Sa'd al-Din Kashghari's disciple and Khwaja 'Ubaydallah Ahrar's companion, 'the wonder of his age in learning, deeds, letters and poetry'; Sharh Fusus al-Hikam, the best sharh of the Kafiya, Nafahat al-Uns, Silsilat al-Dhahab, al-Durra al-Fakhira; he got as far as Hamadan answering Bayezid's summons then begged off for the plague in Rum; died at Herat 898, his chronogram 'whoever enters it is safe' 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Poet · mystic
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Hululu al-Qarawi, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman · Mahmud ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Amshati · Nasir al-Din ibn Zurayq al-Salihi

LiteratureSpirituality and Sufism

Place in the story

  • PoetTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Jami, Abu al-Barakat Nur al-Din, a Persian poet and Sunni Sufi from Jam, to which he is attributed. He wrote on poetry and Sufism. 2

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 817 AH (1414 CE) and his death as 898 AH (1492 CE). These dates need a second source.

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Intimacy with God (uns billah)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 360-361
  2. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.