Khwaju Kermani

His nickname Khwaju is a diminutive of the Persian word Khwaja which he uses as his poetic penname.

[1] This title points to descent from a family of high social status.

[1] The nisba (name title) Morshedi display his association with the Persian Sufi master Shaykh Abu Eshaq Kazeruni, the founder of the Morshediyya order.

In his youth he visited Egypt, Syria, Jerusalem and Iraq.

Returning to Iranian lands in 1335, he strove to find a position as a court poet by dedicating poems to the rulers of his time, such as the Ilkhanate rulers Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan and Arpa Ke'un, the Mozaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, and Abu Ishaq Inju of the Inju dynasty.

Khwaju Kermani Visited by the Angel of Inspiration in a Dream. It was the first miniature in the manuscript of Three Masnavis by Khwaju Kermani illustrated by Junayd in Baghdad in 1396. In 1543/44 Dust Muhammad removed it from the manuscript and placed in the Bahram Mirza Album ( Muraqqa ), now in the Topkapı Palace Museum
Statue of Khwaju Kermani
The tomb of the poet is encased in a protective glass to shield it from the elements, Shiraz