Who Was Sanai?

This is a short biography of Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (1080 - 1141), more commonly known as Sanai. Sanai was a Persian poet from Ghazni who lived his life in the Ghaznavid Empire at the time of its golden age, in medieval Khorasan, which is now located in Afghanistan.

He was originally a royal poet, writing poems of praise in the court of the Sultan of Ghazni (historically Ghazna), an important center of Persian literature in the early 11th century, where many scholars, philosophers, and poets lived. But one encounter with a notorious drunk named Lai Khur set him on a different path in life: the path toward Love.

Learn how Sanai became the influential poet he is known as today, and how he left a lasting mark on other notable Sufi teachers, mystics and poets that followed, including Attar and Rumi.

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