Djami

Djami جامی , of its complete name Abd Al-Ramān ibn Amad Nūr Al-Dīn āmī نورالدینعبدالرحمنجامی , born the August 18th 1414 with Djam (Afghanistan) and dead the November 19th 1492 with Hérat (currently in Afghanistan) is one of the poets most famous Iran IEN of the 15th century, and one of the last poets soufi of Persia. Its fame is rather founded on its mystical authority that on its talents of poet and writer. He worked for the large emir timouride Husayn Bayqara with Hérat.

He was called at the court of the sultan Aboû-Sâïd. Its mystical poems appear in the compositions of Behzad, the great painter miniaturist who was also employed by Husayn Bayqara before leaving to the Séfévides Iran to Tabriz, after the fall of the Timourides.

Biography

It was born in a village close to Jam, but some time before its birth, its family emigrates towards the city of Hérat (now in Afghanistan) where it studies the peripateticism, mathematics, the Arab literature, the natural science, and Islamic philosophy at the University Nizamiyyah of Hérat.

After which, it leaves to Samarkand, the greatest center of scientific studies of the Islamic world at the time, where it finishes its studies. It becomes a famous soufi, member of the branch naqshbandi of this kind.

It passes the end of its life to Herat.

Teaching

As a Cheykh soufi, it develops several ways teaching of the Soufisme.

From its point of view, the love is the fundamental angular stone for beginning well a day turned towards spirituality. To the one of its pupils who protested that he had never liked, he says: Initially will find the love, then return close to me, I would show the way to you. .

Works

Djami wrote nearly 87 pounds and letters, of which some were translated into English or French. Its work goes from prose to poetry, of popular with the monk.

He also wrote some historical treaties.

Its poetry is inspired by the Ghazal S of Hafez and its Haft Awrang . Of its own consent, Djami was also influenced by work of Nizami.

Most remarkable of its many works are:

the Chain of gold ;
Selman and Absal (i.e. Solomon and Absalon);
the Rosary of right the ;
Yusuph and Soleika (i.e. Joseph wire of Jacob and the woman of Potiphar);
Medjnoun and Leïla , poem translated by Antoine-Léonard Chézy, Paris, 1807
the Beharistan (Stay of spring) , moral poem, interfered with prose and worms
Fables , translated by Louis Langlès, 1788.

Djami belonged to the sect of the soufis: it exposed their doctrines in one of his works and gave the life of 619 soufis.

At the 16th century, the poetry of Djami was extremely popular in the Iranian Monde, and made it possible to enrich art by the painting of new topics. That marks the beginning of development many artistic schools, especially in Iran.

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