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Ahmad JamiTimeline (1048 - 1141)
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Ahmad Jami or Ahmad-e Jam, born 440/1048 in Namaq, settled in Jam (near the present-day Afghan border). After a dissolute youth, he underwent a conversion experience and became famous for his austerity and love of seclusion; he spent eighteen years alone in the mountains near Jam studying the Koran and religious sciences. At age forty he began to initiate disciples, write books, and travel around Khorasan. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca late in life, and died on his return in 536/1141. He was buried in his khaneqah in Jam, which is today a center of pilgrimage and of a special kind of Sufi folk music supposedly to have originated with him or been cultivated by him. |
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The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady Amazon.com
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Four Sufi Classics: Salaman and Absal/The Niche for Lights/The Way of the Seeker/The Abode of Spring, Translated by W. H. Gairdner Amazon.com
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The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson Amazon.com
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Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs Amazon.com
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