BIOGRAPHY OF NEZAMI AROUZI

ABOLHASAN AHMAD BEN OMAR BEN ALI SAMARGHANDI is known as NEZAMI AROUZI. He was poet, writer of 12 century. OUFI has prepared a biography of him in summary and has quoted a number of verses belonging to his poems and these are not interesting. Although NEZAMI speaks about his high status as far as poetry is concerned, he was not very good at that. Or if he was master, he was not blessed with a taste. But as far as prose is concerned, he was a great master and both concerning the artificial and decorated kind and eloquent and charming kind. He seems to have been a specialist. His book called the four articles, although it contains many historical mistakes, is a special Farsi work and is one of the best samples of prose books belonging to that language. NEZAMI was not just good at literature but also was skillful as far as medicine and astronomy are concerned.
He served the GHURI king and as he himself has frankly said, for years he served the kings of GHURI and has written his book under the name of ABOLHASAN HESAMODIN ALI BEN FAKHRODIN MASOUD, who was the nephew of king SHAMSODIN MOHAMMAD EBN FAKHRODIN MASOUD the famous GHURI who hold the position.
We don’t have enough information about life of NEZAMI AROUZI.
It seems that he was born in SAMARGHAND at the end of eleven century and in his place of birth, he spent a part of his youth, learning sciences. Then between 1124 until 1126 he went to KHORASAN. Since in the first year, he got some news from the peasant ABOURAJA concerning RUDAKI and in the later year, he met OMAR KHAYAM and four years later in YOUS city, he could see MOAZI, providing him with his poems. In the same years, he was in the service of ALESHANASB, and after this date, occasionally he travelled to KHORASSAN.
His book the four articles is very famous. The original name of the book is MAJMAOL NAVADER. And it includes 4 articles, expressing the situation of four classes of clerks in king`s court. Meaning the secretaries, poets, astronomers and doctors. The writer in the introduction of every article through a decorated composition writes about the techniques that were used and here to prove his theories, he brings certain reasons which concerns the life of the great ones who were famous for their skill. Because of this the four articles in addition to serve as a critical book concerning the techniques and their professionals, they comprise many historical data which are rarely found in other Persian books. And due to this reason. They are very important in the history of Persian literature. These have made the four articles famous and significant. Some other authors have taken some quotations from this book for their own use, such as TABARESTAN history and selected history of DOLATSHAH and many others. The book MAJMAOL NAVADER or four articles was almost written in 1171 to 1172, since at the time of writing, king SANJAR was alive (1172). And then in the meantime the writer names one of the books that should have been referred to by the teachers and was important and its name was MOGHADAMAT HAMIDI.
That book was written in 1171. This book has the name of ABOLHASAN HESAMODIN ALI who was a prince of GHURI and has been printed several times. NEZAMI AROUZI`s method of composition in Persian literature is very interesting. Although in the beginning of the book, author has briefly described the principles of wisdom and kinds of lower beings and the quality of the creation of animals and human beings and his inner standing and proving prophecy and the necessity of having a deputy for the prophet that is the king.