Life Nezami was born in Ganja, one of the major cities of the Atabekan-e-Azerbaijan, part of the Seljuk Empire, where he remained his whole life. Nizami was orphaned early and was raised by his maternal uncle Khwaja Umar who afforded him an excellent education. His mother, named Ra’isa, was of a Kurdish background and […]
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Hakim Nasir Khusraw
“With an inner sight look at the World’s mysteryThe outward sight cannot discover it,This world is the stair leading to the higher worldAnd we must mount its steps.” Nasir Khusraw
Hakim Abol-Ghasem Ferdowsi Tousi
Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Toos, in 940. His great epic the Shahnameh, to which he devoted most of his adult life, was originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the Tomb of Ferdowsi in Toos, Iran, Near Mashhad revival of Persian cultural […]