Mahmud Gami

محمود الجامي

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Kashmiri Sufi poet of Doru Shahabad, called the Jami of Kashmir, who brought the Persian mathnavi and ghazal into Kashmiri and wrote Yusuf-Zuleikha, Lael Majnun and Sheikh Sana'n among the eleven mathnavis of his Kulliyat.

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South Asia
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17251750177518001825185018751900 c. c. c. c.
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    Sources

    • Mahmud Gami — English Wikipedia
    • Mahmud Gami — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Mahmud Gami — Kashmiri Wikipedia
    • Mahmud Gami — Wikidata
    • Gami, Rasul Mir and Asad Mir — Kashmir Times
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