(Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) Kalpaklı, Mehmet; Andrews, W.; Talattof, K.; Clinton, J. W.
Sometime in the last fifteen years of the twelfth century, the Shirvanshah Akhsatan made a request of the poet Nizami:
Mīkhāham ke konūn be yād-e majnūn rānī sokhan cho dorr-e maknūn (48)1
I wish you now in Majnun’s recollection
to speak poetic words like pearls of perfection
