The 15th century Perso-Islamicate world saw a profusion of spiritual and intellectual movements with their political supporters at various levels. ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami’s (d. 898/1492) Nafahat al-Uns is one of the major products of this period containing biographies of more than six hundred Sufis who were followers of these several different traditions/movements. Written in the second half of the 1470s, it reached a wide audience and remained a popular and tradition-defining work for centuries. The significance of this work comes from Jami’s reformulation therein of religious and Sufi history, a well-established topic in the secondary literature. What we must now do is identify the main features of this reformulation and contextualize them as much as possible within the socio-political realities of the 15th century Perso-Islamicate world. This is a large-scale task that raises a series of research questions, such as the perception of Herat as a spiritual center vis-à-vis other centers such as Jam and Chisht, the promotion of Ibn ‘Arabian thought and its exponents in the Nafahat al-Uns, or Jami’s recasting of the Kubrawiyya past. For the present paper, I confine the discussion to Jami’s emphasis on an alternative line of the Kubrawiyya as opposed to the Nurbakhshiyya version of it that has been promoted by the well-known 15th century Nurbakhshid family. This was a clear case of the reformulation and synthesis in the highly contested spiritual/social landscape of the Islamicate world. A close reading of Jami’s Nafahat al-Uns together with certain other contemporary sources such as Hafiz Husayn Karbala‘i’s Rawzat al-Jinan is my starting point. In my attempt to deepen our understanding of Jami’s synthesis I will use these sources to see what alternative historical accounts of Sufi/Kubrawi groups were available to Jami. Specifically, I will explore the possibility that Jami’s stay in the Aqquyunlu controlled Tabriz exposed Jami to at least one alternative Kubrawiyya narrative with further implications for the contesting Sufi groups and for interregional political relations in the latter half of the 15th century.