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Nizami

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Nizami (1141–1202)

Persian poet. He enjoyed great popularity in both his native country and Turkey. Nizami's principal works are five mathnavi poems. The first, the ‘Treasury of Mysteries’, is a didactic poem; the next three, ‘Khusraw and Shirin’, ‘Layla and Majnun’, and ‘Seven Beauties’, are romantic. His final work, the ‘Romance of Alexander’, is a philosophical portrait of the great military commander.



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