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Alternate names/spellings: Nezami-ye Ganjavi

Dates: 1141 - 1209 () 

Nizami Ganjavi (Persian: نظامی گنجوی, Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi‎; Kurdish: نیزامی گه‌نجه‌وی, Nîzamî Gencewî; Azerbaijani: نظامی گنجوی, Nizami GÉ™ncÉ™vi) (1141 – 1209) (6th Hejri century), Nizami Ganje’i, Nizami, or Nezāmi (Persian: نظامی‎), whose formal name was Jamal ad-DÄ«n AbÅ« Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-YÅ«suf ibn-ZakkÄ«, was a twelfth century Persian poet. Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.