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Nizami Ganjavi Nizami Ganjavi (Persian: نظامی گنجوی, Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi‎‎; Kurdish: Nîzamî Gencewî‎; Azerbaijani: Nizami Gəncəvi) (1141 to 1209) (6th Hejri century), Nizami Ganje'i,[2] Nizami,[3] or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī,[4] was a 12th-century Persian poet.[2][5][6][7][8][9] Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature,[10] who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.[1][3] His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan,[2] Azerbaijan,[11] Iran,[2] the Kurdistan region[12][13][14] and Tajikistan.[2] His personal name was Ilyas[2] and his chosen pen-name was Nezami (also spelled as Nizami and Neẓāmi). He was born of an urban[11] background in Ganja (Great Seljuq[1] empire now present-day Azerbaijan) and is believed to have spent his whole life in South Caucasus. According to De Blois, Ganja was a city which at that time had predominantly an Iranian population.[2] The Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi (Ca. 1200–1271) mentions that: "This city was densely populated with Iranians and a small number of Christians".[15] Because Nezami was not a court poet, he does not appear in the annals of the dynasties.[16] Tazkerehs, which are the compilations of literary memoirs that include maxims of the great poets along with biographical information and commentary of styles refer to him briefly.[16] Much of this material in these Tazkerehs are based on legends, a

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