Imadaddin Nasimi
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Seyid Ali Imadaddin Nasimi, commonly known as simply Nasimi, was a 14th- and 15th-century Hurufi poet who composed poetry in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic languages. He is rega
Depiction by Mikayil Abdullayev, 1973
View of Aleppo, where Nasimi spent the later years of his life and where he was executed and buried
Pages from the Azerbaijani dīvān of Nasimi
Azerbaijani stamp commemorating the 650th anniversary of Nasimi's birth, 2019
Diwan (poetry)
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A diwan is a collection of poems by a single author – usually excluding the poet's long poems – in Islamic cultures of West Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, Sicily and South Asia.
Imadaddin Nasimi
…his death for his religious beliefs around 1418–19. Nasimi was executed and buried in a Sufi lodge (takya) in Aleppo. His surviving works include two dīvāns (collections of poems) in Azerbaijani and Persian, along with some poems in Arabic. Nasimi's poems mainly centre on Hurufism and contain many references…
A Mughal scribe and Daulat, his illustrator, from a manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, one of the most famous Persian diwan collections
Rose and nightingale on the binding of a Divan of Hafiz (Iran, 1842)
Ottoman garden party, with poet, guest, and winebearer; from the 16th-century Dîvân-ı Bâkî