Nizami Ganjavi

Nezami (1141–1209)

Nezami (Hakīm Nizām ad-Dīn Abū Muhammad Ilyās ibn-Yusūf ibn-Zakī ibn-Mu'ayyid Nezāmi Ganjavi (1141–1209) Persian: نظامی گنجویcode: fa is deprecated ) was a Persian poet.^[1]^[2] Nezāmi was born in Ganja, now Azerbaijan. He wrote five poetry books.^[3]

In 1169/1170 the king of Darband sent him the maiden Afaq, and Nizami married her. In 1174 his son Muhammad was born. Nizami Gencevi wrote five poems. The first of them was "Makhzan-ol-Asrâr". The others are "Xosrov ve Shirin", "Leyli ve Mecnun", "Haft paykar" and "Isgendernoma".

Nizami Ganjavi Media

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Nizami Ganjavi at shah's reception. Miniature. 1570. Museum of History of Azerbaijan
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Khosrow Parviz discovers Shirin bathing in a pool. Nizami's poems in a Persian miniature, created in ca. 1550 in Shiraz, Persia. Collection of Freer Gallery of Art
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Atabeg of Azerbaijan Qizil Arslan welcomes Nizami
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Salīm conversing with Majnun in the desert. Nizami's text illustrated with a miniature painting from a late 16th-century Indian book
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Alexander sharing his throne with Queen Nushabah, taken from the Sharaf-Nama owned by the Sultan of Bengal Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah. (British Library)
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A portrait of Nizami Ganjavi in Rashtrapati Bhavan

References

↑ Bernard Lewis, “Music of a distant drum”, Princeton University Press, 2001. Pg 9: "An extract from the story of Farhad and Shirin, as told by the 12th century Persian poet Nizami, exmpelified another form of narrative."
↑ Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkeym, Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Taylor & Francis, 1998. Pg 69: "In Arabic literature there has been no artistic elaboration of the story comparable to that undertaken by the Persian poet Nizami."
↑ Talattof K. & Clinton J.W. 2001. The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: knowledge, love, and rhetoric. New York.

[1] Bernard Lewis, “Music of a distant drum”, Princeton University Press, 2001. Pg 9: "An extract from the story of Farhad and Shirin, as told by the 12th century Persian poet Nizami, exmpelified another form of narrative."

[2] Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkeym, Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Taylor & Francis, 1998. Pg 69: "In Arabic literature there has been no artistic elaboration of the story comparable to that undertaken by the Persian poet Nizami."

[3] Talattof K. & Clinton J.W. 2001. The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: knowledge, love, and rhetoric. New York.

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