Mathnawi-yi Haft awrang. Volume 2

Regarded by many as the last great mystical poet of medieval Persia, ?Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. 898/1492) spent the greater part of his life in Herat. As a student, he excelled in every subject he engaged in and appeared destined for an academic career. But then, in his early thirties, he went through a spiritual crisis that ended in him joining the Herat branch of the mystical Naqshbandiyya order, l...