Azerbaijan ‘appropriated’ prominent poet: Iran agency
Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency has accused
Azerbaijan of "appropriating" prominent poet Nizami Ganjavi.
The news agency’s website claimed Tuesday that Azerbaijan "continues making attempts to appropriate" such venerated Muslim personalities as Ganjavi and their historic works. Furthermore, a copy of Ganjavi’s manuscript from the Khamsa masterpiece dating back to the period of Shah Tahmasib Safavi’s rule has been displayed as a sample of Iranian culture at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom. The Azerbaijani Ambassador in London Fakhraddin Gurbanov expressed discontent with the misrepresentation at a meeting with the library’s administration. The Mehr website alleged that the ambassador, "failing to take into account the reality of Azerbaijan’s having been an independent state for only twenty years, leveled a claim that Nizami Ganjavi is attributed to this country."*
The news agency’s website claimed Tuesday that Azerbaijan "continues making attempts to appropriate" such venerated Muslim personalities as Ganjavi and their historic works. Furthermore, a copy of Ganjavi’s manuscript from the Khamsa masterpiece dating back to the period of Shah Tahmasib Safavi’s rule has been displayed as a sample of Iranian culture at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom. The Azerbaijani Ambassador in London Fakhraddin Gurbanov expressed discontent with the misrepresentation at a meeting with the library’s administration. The Mehr website alleged that the ambassador, "failing to take into account the reality of Azerbaijan’s having been an independent state for only twenty years, leveled a claim that Nizami Ganjavi is attributed to this country."*
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