Низами Гянджеви (a full name -Низами Абу Мухаммед Ильяс Йусуф ) - the known Azerbaijani poet, the thinker creating under a literary pseudonym by Низами. What was its course of life, it is known a little as only it is possible to get any data on it from its works. The huge number of legends is connected with his name - fruits of efforts living after biographers.
Its family was rather poor.
Bottoms I was excellently educated person. To poets of that time it was imputed a duty to have quite good idea of many scientific disciplines, however even on their background Bottoms favourably differed. Texts of its poems convincingly testify that it had knowledge not only of the Persian and Arab literature, but also of medicine, divinity, Christianity, the Islamic right, a Judaism, the Iranian mythology, philosophy, esoterics, music, the fine arts, astronomy, etc. He started writing verses in young years.