Nezami
c. 1141 to 1209, Ganja
Five treasures. Love told as an epic, with all its waiting.
About Nezami
Nezami Ganjavi lived from about 1141 to 1209 and is believed to have spent his whole life in the South Caucasus, around his city of Ganja, in present day Azerbaijan. Ganjavi means of Ganja.
His Khamsa gathers five long poems: the Treasury of Mysteries, Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun, the Book of Alexander and the Seven Beauties. Persian calls the set the Panj Ganj, the five treasures.
He is counted the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian, the one who brought a plain spoken, realistic voice into the epic form. His lovers argue, wait, make mistakes and grieve, and readers have recognised themselves in them for eight centuries.
Iran marks 21 Esfand as Nezami Day, and Hamdam lists it among its Roots observances for readers with a Persian connection. Ganjoor holds the Persian, and the app links each verse to it.
فلک جز عشق محرابی ندارد
جهان بیخاکِ عشق آبی ندارد
The heavens have no place of prayer but love. Without the earth of love, the world has no water.