WRITER

Nizami Ganjavi

1141 - 1209

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Nizami Ganjavi (Persian: نظامی گنجوی, romanized: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, lit. 'Niẓāmī of Ganja'; c. 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 Muslim poet. Nizami is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nizami Ganjavi has received more than 763,903 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Nizami Ganjavi is the 181st most popular writer (up from 217th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

Nizami Ganjavi is most famous for his epic poem, the "Khamsa," which is a collection of five long poems.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Haft paykar
1934
Khusraw va Shīrīn
1938
Laylī va Majnūn
1965
Layla and Majnun
Fiction
The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God. This is a beautiful production, and it includes a final chapter newly translated from the Persian by Omid Safi and Zia Inayat Khan.
19974 / 5
The seven wise princesses
Juvenile Fiction
A prose retelling of the Sufi poet Nizami's twelfth-century Haft Paykar is a collection of tales within a tale, where seven princesses entertain Shah Bahram with their stories of adventure, magic, and miracles.
2000
Iqbalnamah
Makhzan-al-asrar
1844
Haft paykar
Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1934
Iskandar-nāmah
Poetry
Selections from versified story of Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.; includes commentary by ʻAbd al-Muḥammad Āyatī.
1873
Khusraw va Shīrīn
1938
Layla and Majnun
1979
Laylī va Majnūn
Fiction, general, Textual Criticism
1965

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nizami Ganjavi ranks 181 out of 7,302. Before him are Taras Shevchenko, Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, Osamu Dazai, and André Breton. After him are John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Constantine VII, Tove Jansson, Dale Carnegie, and Murasaki Shikibu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1141, Nizami Ganjavi ranks 1. After him are Gerard de Ridefort, Malcolm IV of Scotland, Eisai, Floris III, Count of Holland, and Azalais de Porcairagues. Among people deceased in 1209, Nizami Ganjavi ranks 1. After him are Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, William of Champlitte, Alfonso II, Count of Provence, Raymond Roger Trencavel, Phillipe de Plessis, and Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Nizami Ganjavi ranks 2 out of 232. Before him are Heydar Aliyev (1923). After him are Ilham Aliyev (1961), Lev Landau (1908), Richard Sorge (1895), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Zecharia Sitchin (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Nizami Ganjavi ranks 1. After him are Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Khaqani (1126), Banine (1905), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Samad Vurgun (1906), Ahmad Javad (1892), Huseyn Javid (1882), and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869).

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