Herat

Herat, in western Afghanistan in the historic region of Khurasan, was a major cultural capital, flourishing especially under the Timurids in the 15th century as a centre of Persian poetry, painting, and learning. The poet and Naqshbandi Sufi Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. 1492) lived and is buried there; the theologian al-Taftazani (d. c. 1390) was also active in the region.

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