Language and literature

Khamsa (The Five Poems)

Nizami's Khamsa — 1386-88 Baghdad artist / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Author: Nizami Gəncəvi
Language: farsca

Five long poems written in Ganja in the 12th century: "The Treasury of Mysteries", "Khosrow and Shirin", "Layla and Majnun", "The Seven Beauties" and the "Iskandarnameh". A summit of Eastern poetry, it served as a model for poets from Navoi to Fuzuli.

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