ABSTRACT
Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d.898/1492) is said to have spent most of his life in Herat, the main town near the place of his birth. He received training in the religious sciences with a particular emphasis on scholastic theology (kalām) and the study of hadiths. 1 At a young age he became the disciple of the Naqshbandi Sufi khwāja, 2 Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshgharī (d.860/1455). He is also linked to the person whom he describes as the most influential master of this tradition during his own lifetime, namely Khwaja ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrar. 3
