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    known work of Nizami Ganjavi. The Khamsa is in five long narrative poems: Makhzan-ol-Asrâr (مخزن‌الاسرار, 'The Treasury or Storehouse of Mysteries'), 1163...
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  • such as the Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi or that of Hatefi Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208), the manuscript of the five poems of Nezami Ganjavi...
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    Nizami Ganjavi (Persian: نظامی گنجوی, romanized: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, lit. 'Niẓāmī of Ganja'; c. 1141 – 1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal...
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    illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or "five poems" of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th-century...
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    Mohammad Zaman (category Year of birth unknown)
    and streams. The Khamsa of Nizami, a manuscript of five poems by poet Nizami Ganjavi, is known for its Safavid illustrations—three of which are attributed...
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  • themes across the illustrations of Iskandarnameh manuscripts, out of a total of 338 themes across Nizami's entire Khamsa. The most popular illustration...
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    Mughal painting (category Schools of Indian painting)
    Humayan's major known commission was a Khamsa of Nizami with 36 illuminated pages, in which the different styles of the various artists are mostly still...
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    an expert in many styles of Persian poetry which were developed in medieval Persia, from Khāqānī's qasidas to Nizami's khamsa. He used 11 metrical schemes...
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    Abd al-Samad (category Year of death unknown)
    Mughals. Mirza Ali's name first appears in a famous manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, now British Library Oriental 2265, which is dated March 1543....
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    Persian miniature (category Islamic arts of the book)
    began of commissioning illustrated copies of classic works of Persian poetry, above all the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi (940-1020) and the Khamsa of Nizami, which...
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