TEHRAN – The northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province will be hosting an international conference on Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi on February 26, 2018.

Nezami Ganjavi (c. 1141-1209 CE) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.

Nezami’s reputation rests on his Khamseh, a copy of which was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list in May 2011.

Photo: A poster for the International Conference on Nezami Ganjavi

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