n.
or Ni 1E93; 0101; m 012B; orig. Ily 0101; s Y 016B; suf Ni 1E93; 0101; m 012B; Ganjaw 012B;
born 0441; 1141, Ganja, Selj 016B; q empire
died 1209, Ganja
Greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature.
Little is known of his life, except that he spent it in what is now Azerbaijan. Only a handful of his qa 1E63; 012B; dah s (odes) and ghazel s have survived; his reputation rests on his great Khamseh ("The Quintuplet"), a group of five poems totaling 30,000 couplets, in which he brought a colloquial and realistic style to the epic. The fourth poem, The Seven Beauties , is considered his masterpiece.