Aleppo
This is the grave of Imad al-Din Nasimi, the poet of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish, Persian and Arabic and is…
This is the grave of Imad al-Din Nasimi, the poet of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish, Persian and Arabic and is honoured as one of the founders of Azerbaijani and Turkish poetry. He passed away in Aleppo in 820 AH (1417). His tomb, known in Turkish as the Nesimi Turbesi, stands in the al-Farafira quarter of old Aleppo, near the Farafira Khanqah and the Uthmaniyya Madrasa, and is visited by admirers of his poetry from Azerbaijan and Turkey.