ʿIrāqī

ʿIrāqī (born c. 1211, near Hamadan, Iran—died November 1289, Damascus, Syria) was one of the most outstanding poets of 13th-century Persia. Very little is known about ʿIrāqī’s early life. There is evidence that he abandoned a teaching career to follow a group of wandering Sufis, or mystics, as far as India in search of higher mystical knowledge. After studying for 25 years with his master, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyā, in Multān, he journeyed to the Hejaz...