Monument to Nizami to appear in Ljubljana

/By AzerNews/

By Laman Sadigova

A monument to great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi will be erected in one of the central parks in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The Ljubljana City Council decided that the monument will be located in the new part of the Northern City Park. An e-board will be installed close to the memorial to display the masterpieces of Ganjavi.

The monument will be made by Seyfaddin Gurbanov, Ukrainian People’s Artist, sculptor and architect.

Nizami Ganjevi (1141-1209) brought quite new poetic voice and breath to the world literature. With his literary-philosophical wisdom he understood it well and prophet-like foretold the immortality of his art.

The heritage of Nizami had been the source of enthusiasm for poets up to our days and about 500 naziras (poems in resemblance) were written in different languages of the East and the West in resemblance to his works. The creativity of Nizami may fully be appreciated as a new step in classical period. For in high humanist ideas of Nizami one can observe rational, logical attitude towards the events and the subjects, to a man, to meaning and importance of the society, the attitude of a man who wakened from middle centuries mysticism and possessed healthy and wakeful mental activity.

Nizami started his creative activity with lyrical poems- gasidas, gazals and rubais, as literary tradition of his time demanded, and composed his 'Divan' in a very short time period, gaining a fame of famous writer. He dedicated his whole life to lyrical poems, and different philosophical problems, and those he could not express by large epic poems, were reflected by him laconically in rubais.

Beginning with his first epic poem 'Sirlar Xasinasi'('The treasure of secrets')(1174) up to 'Iskendername' Nizami focused on solution of actual problems of his time, as well as eternal problems of the world, perfecting work by work.

The epic poem Khosrov and Shirin (1180) is the first romantic work of Nizami, and is the first among the poems with completed image gallery based on novel subject. The poet, reflecting the dynamic progress of the hero according to the type of romantic profession, at the end of his poem showed unbelievable change of his hero into an ideal person under the influence of his love.

Description and praising of a pure love, heightening a man and perpetuating his name is clearly seen in Leyli and Mejnun (1188), written by request of Shirvanshah Ahsitan, Nizami succeeded with his admirable ability to create immortal love epos. He is known to be the first artist in the Near and Middle East literature to write an epos of this theme

The rest epic poems of Nizami Yeddi Gozel (Seven Beauties, 1197) and Iskendername (1203) are the result of long time scientific researches in the libraries, the logical conclusion of his observations. The theme of both of the works was defined by author himself and used it as philosophical-poetic mean in literary realization of social ideal.

The great size of Nizami’s art and purity of his aesthetic ideal greatly influenced the following development of Azerbaijan literature, the principles of humanism and democracy defined by this great genius extended humanistic inclination not only in Azerbaijan, but also in the whole Near and Middle East and in a part of West literature.