on the information from the Muqaddima for their biographical details about Iraqi. These sources include the Nafahat al-uns ("Breaths of familiarity") composed between 1476 and 1478 by the poet and hagiographer Jami (died 1492), and the Habib al-siyar ("Beloved of the biographies") by the historian Khvandamir (died 1535/36). Biography Of Persian stock, Iraqi was born in 1213/14 in the village of Komjan, close to Hamadan, one of the major cities of Persian Iraq. He was the son of a certain Buzurgmihr ibn Abd al-Ghaffar Jawaliqi, and belonged to a religious and well-read family. By the age of six, Iraqi had reportedly memorized the Quran. He was then educated in religious sciences, and was by the age of seventeen a teacher in a madrasa (religious school) in Hamadan. During one time when Iraqi, still at a young age, was teaching tafsir (interpretation of the Quran), a group of qalandars (wandering dervishes) attended his teaching session. They convinced him to abandon his teachings and join them in search for spiritual knowledge. They eventually went to the city of Multan in India, where Iraqi met Baha al-Din Zakariyya (died 1262), the leader of the Multani branch of the Suhrawardiyya, a Sufi order. Iraqi first became his disciple two years later, after wandering in India. He continued to stay as Baha al-Din's disciple for 25 years, eventually marrying the latter's daughter and having a son named Kabir al-Din. Following Baha al-Din's death in 1262, Iraqi succeeded him as the head of the order. However, he was soon forced to leave Multan due to the envy of Baha al-Din's son Sadr al-Din Arif and some of his disciples. Along with a group of loyal companions, Iraqi made a pilgrimage to Mecca. While they were on their way in Hijaz, the sultan of Oman unsuccessfully attempted to hold Iraqi back. After the pilgrimage, Iraqi went to the city of Konya in Anatolia. There he started studying with Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (died 1274), the most prominent disciple of the Andalusian mystic Ibn Arabi (died 1240). It was during this period that Iraqi started writing the Lama'at ("Divine flashes"), a book which Sadr al-Din highly admired. Iraqi watched the sama (spiritual concert) sessions that the prominent Persian poet Rumi (died 1273) organized. He also reportedly attended Rumi's funeral. Another figure who attended Rumi's sessions was Mu'in al-Din Parwana (died 1277), an administrator of the Mongol Ilkhanate. He became