Jami's Layli u Majnun is a Persian masnavi that retells one of the most celebrated love stories in…
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Sufism
Sufism encompasses the mystical, ascetic, and esoteric dimensions of Islamic belief and practice.
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Yūsuf u Zulaykhā is a Persian narrative poem (masnavi) composed by the celebrated Sufi poet Nur ad-Din Abd…
Qiṣṣah-hā-yi Jāmī is a collection of narrative tales drawn from the works of the Persian poet and Sufi…
The Lavāyiḥ, whose title means "Flashes" or "Gleams," is the more substantial and better-known of the two works…
The Tarjīʿ-band-i Jāmī stands as one of the most celebrated mystical poems in the Persian literary tradition, composed…
Jami opens his divan by praising God as the 'Originator of being' and the 'Opener of the door…
The Ghazaliyyāt-i Jāmī represents the collected lyric poetry in the ghazal form by Mawlānā Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān…
The Guzīdah-i Haft Awrang is an anthology drawn from the monumental poetic work Haft Awrang by the Persian…
Tuḥfat al-aḥrār is a Persian mystical mathnawi composed by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, a prominent Sufi master…
The Rubāʿiyāt-i Jāmī is a collection of quatrains composed by the celebrated Persian poet and Sufi mystic Nūr…
The Bahāristan is a Persian prose work composed by the renowned Sufi poet and scholar Nur al-Din Abd…
The Kulliyāt-i Jāmī represents the comprehensive collection of the literary output of Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī, one…
Sar rishtah-i ṭarīqah-ʾi khvājigān is a Persian Sufi treatise by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, a celebrated poet…
The Lawāʾiḥ (Flashes or Gleams) stands as one of the most significant Persian Sufi texts of the fifteenth…
Jami's Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaḍarāt al-quds stands as one of the most important and comprehensive biographical dictionaries of…