Kamran Djam Annual Lecture at SOAS: Nizâmî: Mirror of the Unseen World

“Nizâmî: Mirror of the Unseen World“ was the first Kamran Djam Annual Lecture of 2015, it was given by Michael Barry (Princeton University) on 2nd February 2015 at the Centre for Iranian Studies, London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London. Nizâmî (1141-1209), from Ganjeh in present-day Azerbaijan, ranks with Firdawsî, `Attâr and Rûmî among the four most influential and deeply beloved narrative poets in all Classical Persian Literature. Kings in Iran and Central