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Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi was a Persian poet from Ganja in the Caucasus, regarded as the greatest master of the romantic epic in Persian. His Khamsa (Five Treasures) includes Layla and Majnun, dedicated to the Shirvanshah Akhsitan I, and Khosrow and Shirin, and he enjoyed the patronage of the Eldiguzid atabegs. His work was widely imitated across the Persian, Turkic and Indian worlds.
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