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| | Nazemi / Nizami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Nezami was of singularly pious, understanding and gentle nature, avoided the attractions of court life, and wrote five long works that are among the greatest in Persian literature and have widely influenced subsequent poetry east and west. |
 | | Wide learning was expected of Islamic poets, and Nezami was well versed in Arabic and Persian literature (including oral and local traditions), mathematics, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, medicine, Koranic exegesis, theology and law, history, ethics, philosophy and esoteric thought, music and the visual arts. |
 | | The fourth poem was Nezami's attempt to rival Firdousi. |
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