Awhadi Maraghai

Awhadi Maraghai
Folio of a copy of Awhadi Maraghai's Jam-i Jam, signed by Kamal ud-Din Behzad, Timurid Herat, dated 1459/60
Folio of a copy of Awhadi Maraghai's Jam-i Jam, signed by Kamal ud-Din Behzad, Timurid Herat, dated 1459/60
Born1274/75
Isfahan, Ilkhanate
Died6 April 1338
Maragha, Jalayirid Sultanate
Notable worksDivan of Awhadi Maraghai
Mathnawi-yi Jam-i jam

Awhadi Maraghei (also spelled Auhadi; Persian: اوحدی مراغه‌ای) (1274/75–1338) was a Persian Sufi poet primarily based in Azerbaijan during the rule of the Mongol Ilkhanate.[1][2]

He is usually surnamed "Maraghai", but also mentioned as Awhadi Esfahani because his father hailed from Isfahan and he himself spent part of his life there. He first chose the pen-name Safi, but changed it to Awhadi after becoming a devotee of the school of the famous mystic Awhad al-Din Kermani.[3]

  1. ^ Lewisohn 2011.
  2. ^ Buchanan-Brown, John Steinberg, S. H., Sigfrid Henry Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature 3 Volume. 2nd revised and enlarged ed., general editor J. Buchanan-Brown London, Cassell, 1973 - p. 86 Auhadi (Maragheh 1337/38), Persian poet, author of a mystical poem
  3. ^ Khaleghi-Motlagh 1987, p. 119.