Nizami Ganjavi was not Persian. Yes his poems were written in Persian but that is not the reason to say that a person who lived in Ganja, died In Gaja, whose museum is in Ganja and whose pen name is Ganjavi,is persian. Saiat Nova ( Accepted as Armenian poet) has written somewhere about 140 poems in Azerbaijani, somewhere about 100 in Georgian and only 50-70 in Armenian, his name is Arabic which means hunter, he is also called ashik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashik) but people acept him as Armenian. But why should people accept Nizami Ganjavi as persion if he never was persian? Many Azerbaijani writers and poets used to write in persian eve by 18-19 centuries. Like in Russia poets like A.S.Pushkin used to write in french. That doesn't make person french or persian.

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