Nezami

A scene from Nezami's adaptation of the story. Layla and Majnun meet for the last time before their deaths. Both have fainted and Majnun's elderly messenger attempts to revive Layla while wild animals protect the pair from unwelcome...

In this article: Literature, Layla, and Fuzuli

..."Haft Paykar", "Khosrow and Shirin" and "Eskandar-nameh". The story of Vis and Ramin also had an immense influence on Nezami. Although Nezami takes the bases for most of his plots from Ferdowsi, but the basis for his rhetoric comes from...

In this article: Alexander the Great, Layla, Islam, Ferdowsi, and Sanai

...to have composed nearly 100 poetic works. He wanted to produce a Panj Ganj (lit. five treasures) in imitation of the Persian poet Nezami, but died after writing only three out of the five works. Towards this end he wrote Nal u Daman, MakHzan...

In this article: Janaka, Revenue, India, and Bengal

...desire Farhad rather than her royal spouse . Khosrow Parviz discovers Shirin bathing in a pool Although the story was known before Nezami, it was brought to its greatest romantic height by him. Unlike Shahnameh which focuses on the...

In this article: Shirin, Ferdowsi, Maurice, and Bahram Chobin

...Oriental and European instruments. Published by ARC Music "Music of the Persian Mystics"She also sings mystical songs from the ancient poet Nezami in "Shirin and Farhad", "The Indian Princess" and "Shahresad" with Parviz Mamnun, Professor of...

In this article: Europe, ARC Music, Hamid Golestani, Franz Schubert, European country, Koch International, George Gershwin, and Afghanistan

...millenary celebrations of the great Persian epic poet Ferdowsi. Sepanta's third film Shirin-o-Farhaad was based on a romantic story from Nezami dramatic poetry. The film was shot in India in four months and was screened towards the end of...

In this article: Leyli o Majnun, Iran, Lor Girl, Tehran, Abdolhossein Sepanta, Literature, Esfahan, Omar Khayyam, Ferdowsi, and India

In ancient times, Kus was accompaniment by Karnay (Persian trumpet or horn). Particularly the Persian epic poets Ferdowsi and Nezami for describing the war fields have mentioned to Kus and Karnay in number of entries. Many Persian...

In this article: Qus, Ferdowsi, Islam, Plutarch, and Iran

Vahshi's, Farhad and Shirin, a Persian folklore and romantic story of Sassanid Iran is written in the meter of the Persian poet Nezami's romantic epic Farhad and Shirin. Although the work was left unfinished at the time of Vahshi's death,...

In this article: Vahshi Bafqi, Yazd, Shiraz, Literary executor, Ghazal, and Kashan

...de Born's last datable poem Gaucelm Faidit composed a planh on the death of Richard the Lionheart Approx. date of Layla and Majnun by Nezami Death years link to the corresponding "yea in poetry" article. There are conflicting or...

In this article: Richard the Lionheart, Gaucelm Faidit, Bertran de Born, Folquet de Marselha, and Layla

...story of love and enchantment portraying Shirin, a princess of Armenia, and Khosrow, the Persian Emperor, as lovers. Composed by Nezami, an acclaimed Persian poet of the 12th century, the sensuous, dramatic, and refined love epic not...

In this article: Encyclopaedia Iranica, New York University, Romeo and Juliet, and Onager