Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 72 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 72: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose text (page 46) from what appears to be a biographical or historical work titled "Notice of Jámi's Life." The text describes the death and burial of Jámi, an Islamic poet and philosopher, who died in 1492 at age eighty-one. It details his final illness, his funeral arrangements ordered by Sultan Husein, and the monument erected in his memory in Herat. The passage also notes Jámi's veneration as a saint and recounts an anecdote about an Arab who falsely accused him and subsequently died, allegedly fulfilling Jámi's prediction. The text references historian Rosenzweig as a source.
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4.6 NOTICE OF JAM{’S LIFT. een eee they both continued affectionately to honour him as long as he lived. Jami sickened of his mortal Illness on the 13th of Moharrem, 1492—a Sunday. His Pulse began to fail on the following Friday, about the Hour of Morning Prayer, and stopped at the very moment when the Muezzin began to call to Evening. He had lived Highty-one Years. Sultan Husein under- took the pompous Burial of one whose Glory it was to have lived and died in Dervish Poverty; the Dignitaries of the Kingdom followed him to the Grave; where twenty days afterward was recited in presence of the Sultan and his Court an Eulogy composed by the Vizir, who also laid the first Stone of a Monument to his Friend’s Memory—the first Stone of ‘ Tarbet’i Jami,” in the Street of Meshhed, a principal Thoro’fare of the City of Herat. For, says Rosenzweig, it must be kept in mind that Jami was reverenced not only as a Poet and Philosopher, but as a Saint also; who not only might work a Miracle himself, but leave such a Power lingering about his Tomb. It was known that an Arab, who had falsely accused him of selling a Camel he knew to be unsound, died very shortly after, as Jami had predicted, and on the very selfsame spot where the Camel fell. And that libellous Rogue at Baghdad PBZ { CORnNICLOO