Colin Turner

Niẓāmī Ganjavī

Nizami

The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God. This is a beautiful production, and it includes a final chapter newly translated from the Persian by Omid Safi and Zia Inayat Khan.

Layla and Majnun

The story of Layla and Majnun is the classic Islamic story of doomed love. The young Bedouin poet Qays fell in love with Layla, a woman of his own tribe, and wrote her many celebrated love poems. When his father forbade the marriage, Qays went mad and began to wander the desert (Majnun is Arabic for 'madman'). Five centuries later, the Persian author Nezami wrote what is generally regarded as the finest version of their story, presented here in a new English translation.

The Story of Layla and Majnun

Nizami Ganjavi

The Haft Paykar is one of the great works of Persian literature. Completed in 1197 by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja, it is an allegorical romance of great beauty and depth, and its central theme of self-knowledge as the path to human perfection is conveyed in rich and vivid imagery and complex symbolism. It tells the story of the Sassanian ruler Bahram V Gur and of his spiritual progress. He is guided towards wisdom and moral enlightenment by the seven tales of love told to him by his brides, the Princesses of the Seven Climes. Each tale depicts a love-quest which ends sometimes in failure, more often in fulfilment, as desire is guided by virtue. Haft Paykar means 'Seven Images/Portraits/Beauties', and it refers to the seven princesses, their seven tales, and the seven planets.

A Medieval Persian Romance

The Haft Paykar

Selections from versified story of Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.; includes commentary by ʻAbd al-Muḥammad Āyatī.

گزيده اسكندر نامه، از پنج گنج نطامى گنجوى

خمسۀ نظامى گنجه‌اى

Kitāb-i Khamsah-i Niẓāmī

Sikandar-nāmeh-yi barrī

Khamseh

کليات خمسۀ حکيم نظامى گنجه‌اى

نظامى گنجوى،

نخستين قسمت از پنجمين گنجينه جمال الدين ابو محمد الياس بن يوسف بن زکى مؤيد حکيم نظامى گنجوى

شرفنامه

bā muqābalah va taṣḥīḥ az ṣaḥīḥtarīn nusakh-i muʻtabar-i chāpī va khaṭī

Khamsah-i ḥakīm Niẓāmī Ganjaʾī

az Sharafʹnāmah-ʼi Iskandarī

Janghā-yi Iskandar bā Rūsīyān

Haft paykar

Kulliyāt

کتاب مخزن الاسرار از گفتار شيخ نظامى گنجه

Kutb'un Husrev ü Ṣirin'i ve Dil hususiyetleri

The sikandarnāmah i bahri

خود‌نامۀ اسکندري مسمی بسکندر‌نامۀ بحري از تصانیف نظامي

Niẓāmī Ganjavī

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