What is "nizami"

Nizami (Persian: نظامی) may refer to:

Nizami is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 76 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Nizami is named for the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, who lived from 1141 to 1209.

Nizami is an opera composed by Afrasiyab Badalbeyli and staged in 1948.

Nizami is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Farhan Nizami (born before 1977), Islamic scholar at the University of Oxford
• Hameed Nizami (1915–1962), Pakistani journalist
• Majid Nizami (born 1928), Pakistani editor and publisher
• Motiur Rahman Nizami (born 1943), Bangladeshi politician

Given name:

• Nizami Aruzi (fl. 1110–1161), writer of Persian prose and poetry in the 12th century, famous for the Chahar Maqala
• Nizami Bahmanov (1948−2008), Azerbaijani politician
• Nizami Ganjavi (1141−1209), considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian history
• Nizami Hajiyev (born 1988), Azerbaijani football midfielder
• Nizami Pashayev (born 1981), Azerbaijani weightlifter