Awḥadī Marāghaʾī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Awḥadī Marāghāʾī (b. ca. 673/1274-5-d. 738/1338) was an important Persian Ṣūfī poet who flourished in Persian Āzarbāyjān under Mongol rule. His full name is given as Awḥad al-Dīn (or Rukn al-Dīn), b. Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī. As attested by one verse of his Mathnawī-yi Jām-i jam , (see Nafīsī, xlix), Awḥadī was born in Isfahan circa 673/1274 and remained there probably until his late teens. In the early 690s/1290s, he set out on travels which took him to cities such as Baṣra, Baghdād,