Jam (Turbat-e Jam)

Jam (modern Turbat-e Jam), in the Khurasan region of northeastern Iran near the Afghan border, is named for the Sufi shaykh Ahmad-i Jam (d. 1141), whose shrine is there. The poet and Naqshbandi Sufi Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. 1492) was born in the district of Jam, from which he took his pen-name.