Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa (Persian: خمسه, 'Quintet' or 'Quinary', from Arabic) or Panj Ganj (Persian: پنج گنج, 'Five Treasures') is the main and best known work of Nizami Ganjavi. == Description == The Khamsa is in five long narrative poems: Makhzan-ol-Asrâr (مخزنالاسرار, 'The Treasury or Storehouse of Mysteries'), 1163 (some date it 1176) Khosrow o Shirin (خسرو و شیرین, 'Khosrow and Shirin'), 1177–1180 Leyli o Majnun (لیلی و مجنون, 'Layla and Majnun'), 1192 Eskandar-Nâmeh (اسکندرنامه, 'The Book of Alexander'), 1194 or 1196–1202 Haft Peykar (هفت پیکر, 'The Seven Beauties'), 1197 The first of these poems, Makhzan-ol-Asrâr, was influenced by Sanai's (d.