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Al-Jāmī

Born: 1414, Khurāsānī village of Kharjerd

Died: 1492, Samarqand

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A famous Sufi scholar and poet of the fifteenth century, Jāmī’s most important philosophical contributions are his commentaries on Ibn ‘Arabī.

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  1. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä/Academy of Finland, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Jari Kaukua

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Kaukua, J. (2015). Al-Jāmī. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_8-1

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