Khwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi (1280–1352) was a famous Persian

Persian people

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 poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.

Life

He was born in Kerman

Kerman

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, Iran

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 in 24 December 1290.
His nickname Khwaju is a diminutive of the Persian

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 word Khwaja which he uses as his poetic penname. This title points to descent from a family of hish social status. The nisba (name title) Morshedi indicates his associate with the Persian sufi master Shaykh Abu Eshaq Kazeruni, the founder of the Morshediyya order.
He passed away around 1349 in Shiraz, Iran

Shiraz, Iran

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, and his tomb in Shiraz

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 is a popular tourist attraction today. When he was young, he visited Egypt

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, Syria

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, Jerusalem and Iraq

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. He also performed the Hajj in Mecca

Mecca

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. One purpose of his travel is said to have been education and meeting with scholars of other lands. He composed one his best known work Homāy o Homāyun in Baghdad

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. Returning to Persian lands in 1335, he strove to find a position as a court poet by dedicating poems to the rulers of his time, such as the Il-Khanid rulers Abu Saʿid Bahādor Khan and Arpā Khan, the Mozaffarid Mobārez-al-Din, and Abu Esḥāq of the Inju

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 dynasty.

List of Poems

• Divan - a collection of his poems in the form of Ghazals, qasidas, strophic poems, qeṭʾas (occasional verse), and quatrains
• Homāy o Homāyun The poem relates the adventures of the Persian prince Homāy, who falls in love with the Chinese princess, Homāyun.
• Gol o Nowruz The poem tells another love story, this time vaguely situated in the time shortly before the advent of Islam.
• Rowżat-al-anwār In twenty poetic discources, the poet deals with requirements for the mystical path and the ethics of kingship.
• Kamāl-nām
• Gowhar-nāma
• Sām-nāma A heroic epic about the grandfather of Rustam

External links

• http://www.shirazcity.org/shiraz/Shiraz%20Information/Sightseeing/Khajou%20e.htm