Nǝsimi, İmadǝddin - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Heß, Michael R.
Leiden
Brill
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İmadǝddin Nǝsimi (ʿİmādǝddīn Nǝsīmī d. c.821/1418-9) is considered to be the true founder of Azerbaijani (Turkic) classical ǝruz (ʿarūḍ) poetry; he wrote in Persian, Oghuz Turkic, and occasionally Arabic. According to some sources, including Sibṭ Ibn al-ʿAjamī (d. 818/1415), Nǝsimi's given name was ʿAlī. The etymology of Nǝsimi, his most frequently used makhlaṣ (pen name), is contested, but most convincingly explained as an echo of Naʿīmī, the pen name of Faḍlallāh Astarābādī (d. 796/1394). Less often, Nǝsimi also used the makhlaṣ Ḥüseynī. Frequently,