NIZAMI (). Shaikh Nizami or Nizamuddin Abu Mohammed Ilyas Yusuf, the unrivalled master of the romantic epopee in Persia, who ranks in poetical genius as next to Firdausi, was born 535 (1141 ). His native place, or at any rate the abode of his father, was in he hills of Kumm, but as he spent almost all his days in Ganjah in ...