Nisami

Nisami

1140 – 1202
Place of Birth: Ganja (modern-day Azerbaijan)
Place of Death: Ganja (modern-day Azerbaijan)

Nizami Ganjavi (نظامی گنجوی) (1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet. Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, the Kurdistan region and Tajikistan.