# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nizami-ganjavi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:58:23.364Z

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name: "Nizami Ganjavi"
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description: "A 12th-century poet who reset the terms for Persian epic — not grand and distant, but colloquial, realistic, close enough to hear breathing. His romantic epics still anchor literary tradition from Afghanistan to Tajikistan."
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deathDate: "1209"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī was born around 1141, later known as Nizami of Ganja. He wrote through the 12th century, pulling the Persian epic down from its archaic heights and giving it the rhythms of actual speech, the texture of real feeling. The romantic epics that followed made him the form's greatest practitioner in Persian literature. He died in 1209, leaving work that would be claimed and cherished across borders — Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kurdistan, Tajikistan — each reading him as their own.