DAHİ AZERBAYCAN ŞAİRİ NİZАMİNİN YARADICILIĞINDA MÜTАLAA MEVZUU
GREAT AZERBAIJAN POET NIZAMI'S CREATIVITY

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author analyzes views of great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209) on significance of reading and its role in formation of intellectuals. Having a rich personal library, Nizami Ganjevi worked with sources in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Nyüzyılani, and Pahlavi languages besides his own native Azerbaijani (Turkic). He had good knowledge in different fields, such as linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, geography, theology, music, medicine, etc., which he gained basically thanks to his reading. Heroes of Nizami are people highly appreciating the role of books and being regularly occupied with reading. Such heros as Sasanid king KHüsrev (“KHüsrev and Shirin”) and Alekander the Great (“Isgender-name”) paid special attention to creation of a rich library, bringing a lot of interesting books from countries they occupied and translating some of them into their native languages.

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