Life Nezami was born in Ganja, one of the major cities of the Atabekan-e-Azerbaijan, part of the Seljuk Empire, where he remained his whole life. Nizami was orphaned early and was raised by his maternal uncle Khwaja Umar who afforded him an excellent education. His mother, named Ra’isa, was of a Kurdish background and […]
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Iran orders censoring of epic Persian love story eight centuries on
Tehran – Iran’s Culture Ministry has ordered the censoring of one of the most famous epic love stories in Persian literature more than eight centuries after it first appeared, the news agency Mehr reported Monday.