“My birthplace is Jam, and my pen
Has drunk from (knowledge of) Sheikh-ul-Islam Ahmad Jam,
Hence in the books of poetry
My pen nam is Jami for these two reasons.”

— Jami

Jami's Divan, p. 70-80
about himself

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Persian poet 1414–1492

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