ʿIrāqī

Persian poet
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Also known as: Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʿIrāqī Hamadānī
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In full:
Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʿIrāqī Hamadānī
Born:
c. 1211, near Hamadan, Iran
Died:
November 1289, Damascus, Syria

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 and to the city of Konya in Anatolia. At Konya he wrote what is considered to be his greatest work, Kitāb al-lamaʿāt (“The Book of ...(100 of 161 words)