Nizami Ganjavi's legacy in Oriental poetry

Abstract

Nizami Ganjavi's work was studied in the context of world literature for over 800 years, but it still sounds modern today. It is known that he, in contrast to the court poets, retained his independence, being addicted to the palace. Nizami created a number of lyric poems, some of which have come down to us and five works were included in his famous “Khamsa”. These are gasidas, ghazals, rubais, and the poems “Treasury of Secrets”, “Khosrow and Shirin”, “Leyli and Majnun”, “Seven Beauties” and “Iskendername”.

Man, his historical fate is the central theme of the poet's work. Good and evil in Nizami's humanism are tested by the simplest criterion of humanity; he believed that the improvement of a person depends on himself, on his mind. Nizami's creativity had a great influence on the further development of world culture.