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  Nizami Ganjavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nizami Ganjevi's creation was the primary top of the Renaissans of the East, and consisted of bright artistic reflection of the most humane, universal socio-political, social and moral-ethic ideals of his epoch.
Nizami Ganjavi brought the highest humane ideals and new professional achievements into the literature of the Near East nations and opened a new direction in Eastern literature.
Nizami always tried to connect the literature with the life, though taken images from the history, he treated them from his present day and being a great humane poet, he sang of a man, a man's dignity.
ganca.aznet.org /ganca/nizamien.html   (623 words)

  
 REPORT of THE COURT OF INQUIRY - Newspapers - The ‘Maghribi Pakistan’
Nizami said that the entire agitation had been inspired by Government and that it could be stopped immediately if the Government so liked because the papers which were engaged in the campaign could not afford to disobey the directions of Government.
Nizami then pointed to Mir Nur Ahmad and said that he was the arch criminal in the matter because it was he who was having all articles on the movement written.
Nizami alleged at that party that Mir Nur Ahmad was responsible for carrying on this campaign in the newspapers and that Mir Nur Ahmad said nothing to contradict the allegation.
www.thepersecution.org /archive/munir/p105.html   (4494 words)

  
 Islamic Philosophy Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jamal al-Din Ilyas Ibn Yusif Nizami Ganjavi was born around 1140 in Ganjah, in the present-day republic of Azerbaijan.1 There are also reports that Nizami could have been born in Qum, Iran, and migrated to Ganjah at a later date.
Nizami's father, Yusif, was a civil administrator and a devout Muslim.
Nizami's body of works consists of a divan (collection of poems) of which only a small portion is extant and a khamsah (quintet).
www.muslimphilosophy.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=212&ARCHIVE=   (1387 words)

  
 Azeri Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nizami wrote in Persian, since it was the basic literary language in the medieval Islamic Orient, with Arabic being the language of religion and science.
Nizami’s lyrical poems are, in fact, permeated with passionate emotion, many of which are dedicated to his beloved wife Afaq (Apaq - Snow-White in Azeri-Turkish).
Tremendous admiration of Nizami is also reflected in the medieval Azerbaijanian and Middle Eastern miniature arts, where the themes are for the greater part taken from Nizami’s Khamsa.
literature.aznet.org /literature/nganjavi/nganjavi_en.htm   (444 words)

  
 Showcases :: Emperor Akbar’s ‘Khamsa of Nizami’
Nizami is the pen-name of the Persian poet, Abu Muhammad Illyas ibn Yusuf ibn Mu’ayyad, who was born around 1141, or 535 by the Islamic Calendar.
He is known as Nizami of Ganja, after the city where he spent most of his life, now the second largest city in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Nizami was the most famous and prolific of Ganja’s many poets, though most of his poems are now lost.
www.bl.uk /onlinegallery/themes/asianafricanman/nizami.html   (1281 words)

  
 Nizami: Layla and Majnun
Nizami's is perhaps the most famous (even immortalized in two songs by Eric Clapton: "Layla" and "I Am Yours").
Nizami was writing for a sophisticated urban audience in one of the richest and most sophisticated empires in the world, about a long-ago imaginary past of nomadic Arab life.
But both Nizami's and Qays' cultures had in common that men and women were rigidly separated, marriages were arranged, and love played a much larger role in fantasy than in real life.
www.wsu.edu:8000 /~brians/love-in-the-arts/layla.html   (2478 words)

  
 NIZAMI - LoveToKnow Article on NIZAMI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was rescued at last from this monkish idleness by his inborn genius, which, not being able to give free vent to its poetical inspirations under the crushing weight of bigotry, claimed a greater share in the legitimate enjoyments of life and the appreciation.
Rdmin (about the middle of the 11th century), can compete with Nizami in the wonderful delineation of character and the brilliant painting of human affections, especially of the joys and sorrows of a loving and beloved heart.
The five mathnawis, from the Makhzan to the Haft Paikar, form Nizmls so-called Quintuple (K/zamsa) or Five Treasures (Panj Ganj), and have been taken as pattern by all the later epic poets in the Persian, Turkish, Chaghata.i and Hindustani languages.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NIZAMI.htm   (625 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | PT Special: Of Legend, The Venerated!: Abdul Hamid Nizami
Nizami was sentenced to death on the charge of ‘high treason’ but Allah Almighty saved his life and was set free without any condition except that he [Nizami] should migrate to Pakistan unilaterally else the Indian invaders of the State would expel him by force.
A peculiar feature of Nizami Sahib was that he remained steadfast with a realistic approach and measured every thing with a judicious mindset instead of succumbing to miscellaneous devices of extol.
The demise of late Abdul Hamid Nizami was intensely mourned world-wide, specifically by overseas Kashmiris with a hope that ‘the Nizami mission’ shall be kept breathing by the heirs who, to give impetus to his steadfast ideas in all times ahead.
pakistantimes.net /2005/01/13/ptspecial.htm   (857 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Haque Nizami was greeted by howls of protests from professors who believed that the bright student was meant for greater things.
Nizami stuck to his stand and has had no reason to regret the decision in his 26-year-old career.
Nizami’s efforts have ensured that the budget allocation to the institute has gone up substantially.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050418/asp/jamshedpur/story_4628829.asp   (894 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nizami, also industries minister, disowned the activities of so-called militant groups, including the dreaded Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and demanded arrest of JMJB operations commander Bangla Bhai.
Nizami observed the media hype over the activities of these individuals and groups might invite measures against Bangladesh as happened against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nizami said Islam does not prescribe any extreme policy and the Jamaat-e-Islami has earned public trust as a moderate party as it did not embrace Islamic militancy and extremism.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/05/31/d40531011111.htm   (474 words)

  
 Haft Paykar - Nizami
Nizami has, however, created a complex, larger work that is best enjoyed in its complete form.
The present translation seeks to present Nizami's poem, as befits its importance in the Persian romance tradition, as a work of poetry first and foremost, and in a style approximating that of European romances.
Nizami (or Nizami Ganjavi) is the pen-name of Abu Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu'ayyad.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/nizami/hpaykar.htm   (783 words)

  
 GN Online: Renowned editor sees major upheaval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Majeed Nizami, owner and Editor-in-Chief of Nawa-i-Waqt, a leading group of newspapers, said people from the middle and low income levels are crushed by the immense price hikes and worsening economic conditions.
Nizami, who has been the editor of the leading daily for more than 40 years, a record, is known for his bold stand against any government which tries to usurp people's rights.
Nizami was also known as the driving force behind Sharif and helped him achieve political success.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=58903   (601 words)

  
 6.3 The Legend of Leyli and Majnun
After Nizami, the most famous poet of the Leyli and Majnun narrative was Jami (1414-1492), a poet of Herat (now Afghanistan) who was initiated into the Nakshbandi Sufi order.
Nizami's legacy is immense as one of the strongest artistic and intellectual personalities of the second half of the 12th century.
The 8,000 lines of verse that comprise Nizami's poem "Leyli and Majnun" give a very balanced description of the destiny of the unfortunate lovers, caught between tragic mysticism and their own true feelings and attitudes.
azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/63_folder/63_articles/63_legendleyli.html   (4803 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi : Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years.
These essays explore Nizami’s influential role and his portrayal of issues related to love, women, and science, stressing his preoccupation with the art of speech as a major impetus behind his literary activity.
The poet Nizami Ganjavi (1140-1202) is one of the giants of the Persian literary tradition.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312228104?v=glance   (510 words)

  
 12.3 Nizami Lives! Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nizami, whose mother tongue was Azeri, wrote in Persian, which was the literary language of the day.
When he discovered the lyrics were based on Nizami's poetry of Leyli and Majnun, he found the English version and upon reading it, felt such a close affinity with the 800-year-old work that he wanted to make it available for Portuguese speakers.
Nizami's story of Leyli and Majnun is often compared to Shakespeare's drama of Romeo and Juliet, though Nizami precedes the British bard by 400 years.
www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai123_folder/123_articles/123_nizami_brazil.html   (600 words)

  
 Nizami: Iranian Poet
Nizami spent 30 years, composing his "Khamseh" (Five Treasures), of which best-known in "Khosro" and "Shirin".
The first epic of Nizami was "Khosro and Shirin", which relates the love story of King of Persia and beautiful Princess Shirin.
It is related that as he struck the rock, he constantly invoked the name of Shirin.
www.caroun.com /Literature/Iran/Poets/Nizami/NizamiContents.html   (139 words)

  
 Pakistani Journalist Urges Countrymen to Stand United
Majeed Nizami, center, is flanked by Zubair Badr, left, and Shahid Naeem at the community function in Jeddah.
Nizami also stressed the need to increase export of Pakistani goods to Saudi Arabia.
Speaking about the Kashmir issue Nizami said the solution to the problem should be in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
www.arabnews.com /?page=10§ion=0&article=55989&d=13&m=12&y=2004   (398 words)

  
 "Follow Your Heart: The Story of Layla and Majnun" by J. T. Coker
The story of Layla and Majnun is one of the most popular in the Islamic world, enduring in legends, tales, poems, songs, and epics from the Caucasus to Africa and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
No one knows the number of translations of Nizami's work in the many languages encompassed by Islamic religious culture, but at least forty Persian and thirteen Turkish versions are known, and one scholar states that there are actually over a hundred versions in those two languages alone.
So ends Nizami's poetic narrative of the story of Layla and Majnun, but to really appreciate and understand this work, it needs to be read, and savored, in full.
www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/49-99-0/mi-jcok.htm   (1331 words)

  
 Motiur Rahman Nizami
The chief of operations of the al-Badr (Jamati death squad) forces, Motiur Rahaman Nizami is responsible for the murder of thousands of Bengalis involved in or connected to the liberation war.
Besides his involvement in assassination, murder, extortion and confiscation, Nizami is also committed to establish Jamati ideological hegemony (a Maududi version of Islamic fundamentalism) to perpetuate the Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh.
Although Jamat preaches Wahabism its head Nizami gave a lavish Iftar party in the most expensive hotel in Bangladesh (Sonargaon) on 11 November 2003 when the northern districts of Bangladesh were devastated with famine.
muktadhara.net /moitya.html   (1544 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Books, Poetry of Nizami, Kamran Talattof and Jerome W. Clinton
In "A Comparison of Nizami's Layli and Majnun and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet," Jerome W. Clinton draws attention to the very different approaches taken by Nizami and Shakespeare both to describing passionate love itself and to showing the impact of lovers on their communities.
In "Nizami's Poetry versus Scientific Knowledge: The Case of the Pomegranate," Christine van Ruymbeke explains Nizami's knowledge of pharmaceutical and medical properties and uses by examining his remarks on certain plants.
The extraordinary dissemination of Nizami's panj ganj throughout Persian and Persianate literature is a remarkable and largely unexplored phenomenon (cf.
www.iranian.com /Books/2001/February/Nizami/index.html   (894 words)

  
 Sikandar Nama, e bara (The Book of Alexander the Great) - Nizami
Nizami is among the greatest Persian authors, his Panj Ganj ('Five Treasures') all significant texts.
Nizami's work is generally more substantial, in bulk if not necessarily meaning.
Alexander played a significant role in Islamic culture, and Nizami provides a point of view with which Western readers are generally not familiar.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/nizami/sikandar.htm   (1005 words)

  
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Khamsa of Nizami: Construction of the Castle of Khawarnaq.
Khamsa of Nizami: Mourning for the Death of Laila's Husband.
Khamsa of Nizami: Laila and Majnun at School.
members.tripod.com /~khorasan/TajikPersonalities/Bihzad.htm   (588 words)

  
 Bizim Azerbaijan - Nizami Ganjavi
The virtue of Nizami's poetry lies in his ability of expressing people's desires and yearnings, in humanism common to all mankind, in highest artistic skill, in delicacy of progressive ideas, in their fluency and simplicity, perceptibility, actuality and profoundness.
Nizami noted the possibility of establishing a similar society only through the moral and spiritual perfection of the Man. Nizami was not a poet of court, but he was obliged to dedicate his poems to rulers and eminent people, driven to it by the need to find protection.
She became Nizami's first and only wife, and the mother of his son Muhammad.
www.bizimazerbaijan.com /nizami.htm   (591 words)

  
 Nizami - Poetry in Persian at Best Iran Travel.com
His son Mohammad was seven years old when Nizami wrote "Khosro and Shirin", fourteen years old when he wrote "Layla and Majnun", and eighteen or nineteen when he wrote "Haft Peykar" (Seven Beauties).
Nizami said that his son encouraged him to write "Layla and Majnun." It is said that his son was very intelligent and familiar with poetry.
Nizami sent his son to give his messages to King Malek Ezeddin as well as to deliver a copy of "Eghbalnameh" which Nizami wrote in the name of the king.
www.bestirantravel.com /culture/poetry/nizami.html   (412 words)

  
 The Uzbeks and the Safavids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their art was inspired by nationalistic sentiments as well as Turcoman painters of the Akkoyunlu studio.
The other fine manuscript, Shahname, had dispersed after it was presented to the Ottoman Sultan Selim II in 1567.
The depicted illustrations are from Khamsa of Nizami.
www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr /~history/uzbek.html   (156 words)

  
 HRCBM's protest against Mr. Nizami
The Minister’s comments are irresponsible for his position, and can be considered as an act of libel aimed at defaming HRCBM and stopping the human rights activities of the organization in the country.
Nizami has essentially copied the commentary of the Daily Inquilab (May 29, 2004).
Nizami’s media bashing as “hypocrisy.” The newspaper asserted, “In alluding to the sinister potential for intervention a la Afghanistan or Iraq, Nizami in effect has cast doubts on the patriotic credentials of the media while trying to take a holier-than-thou attitude.”
www.hrcbm.org /NEWLOOK/protest_05-31-04.html   (814 words)

  
 Azerweb.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since many of these buildings are student hostels, an indirect outcome of this program will be the improved standard of living for students should the buildings be returned to their original use in future.
Rehabilitation activities undertaken in these buildings include: replacement of entire electrical installations, gas stoves and wash basins in common kitchens, toilets sewage system, repair and replacement of drinking water pipelines, public showers, walls, roof, doors, windows, stairs and floor.
Clothes were distributed in MCI rehabilitated public buildings during this quarter in Yasamal, Nizami and Nasimi region of Baku.
www.azerweb.com /en/report.php?id=178   (924 words)

  
 Motiur Rahman Nizami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The chief of operations of the al-Badr (death squad) forces, Motiur Rahaman Nizami is responsible for the murder of thousands of Bengalis involved in or connected to the liberation war.
Implying that their short-term target was to come to the mainstream of politics, Nizami said that the ‘party’s short-term goal is already achieved’.
In his inaugural speech, Nizami said, ‘We never said we are going to power to establish Islam when we joined the four-party alliance.
www.iftwcb.org /nizami.htm   (2078 words)

  
 Central Asia and Iran>
Indeed, the seven beauties are placed strategically at the center to take us to the world of Nizami and of his lovable characters.
Placed in proper perspective, "The Seven Beauties" is an excellent example of the international dimensions of the epic genre as much as it is a good gauge for fathoming the depth of the cultures of the thirteenth century.
Before Nizami only Firdowsi had given reign to his imagination to explore the larger world of his time.
www.angelfire.com /rnb/bashiri/Teahouse/Figures.html   (4919 words)

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