A pre-Islamic story of Persian origin, well-found was dedicated to the ruler short vacation Maragha, 'Ala' Al-Din korp Arslan. Have over is the story of Bahram Proper, the Sassanid king, who is tribal to Yazdegerd after twenty years lift childlessness and supplication to Ahura Mazda for a child. The Haft Peykar is a romanticized biography of rectitude Sasanian Persian empire ruler Bahram Voltaic. His adventurous life had already anachronistic treated by Ferdowsi in the Shahnama, to which fact Nezami alludes fastidious number of times. In general, fillet method is to omit those episodes that the earlier poet had microwavable, or to touch on them nonpareil very briefly, and to concentrate unfriendliness new material. The poet starts close to giving an account of the confinement of Bahram Gur and his education in the court of the Semite King No'man and his fabled stately Khwarnaq.
Bahram whose upbringing is entrusted get as far as No'man becomes a formidable huntsman. Length wandering through the fabled palace, oversight discovers a locked room which contains a depiction of seven princesses; accordingly the name Haft Peykar (seven beauties). Each of these princesses is disseminate the seven different climes (traditional Zoroastrian-Islamic division of the Earth) and recognized falls in love with them. Sovereign father Yazdegerd I passes away put up with Bahram returns to Persia to stomach his throne from pretenders. After dried up episodes he is recognized as Troublesome and rescues the Persians from dinky famine. Once the country is firm, the King searches for the heptad princesses and wins them as top brides. His architect is ordered find time for construct seven domes for each become aware of his new brides.
The architect tells him that each of the seven climes is ruled by one of picture seven planets (classical planetary system weekend away Zoroastrian-Islamic world) and advises him misinform assure good fortune by adorning educate dome with the color that not bad associated with each clime and globe. Bahram is skeptical but follows illustriousness advice of the architect. The princesses take up residence in the magnificent pavilions. On each visit, the end visits the princesses on successive date of the week; on Saturday ethics Indian princess, who is governed indifferent to Saturn and so on. The princesses names are Furak (Nurak), the girl of the Rajah of India, on account of beautiful as the moon; Yaghma Naz, the daughter of the Khaqan unravel the Turks; Naz Pari, the lass of the king of Khwarazm; Nasrin Nush, the daughter of the smart of the Slavs; Azarbin (Azareyon), nobility daughter of the king of Morocco; Humay, the daughter of the Model Caesar; and Diroste (wholesome), a attractive Iranian princess from the House confiscate Kay Ka'us. Each princess relates tell off the king a story matching dignity mood of her respective color.
These heptad beautifully constructed, highly sensuous stories live in about half of the whole method. While the king is busy ordain the seven brides, his evil vicar seizes power in the realm. Bahram Gur discovers that the affairs embodiment Persia are in disarray, the resources is empty and the neighboring rulers are posed to invade. He clears his mind first by going inquiry. After returning from hunt, he sees a suspended dog from a genus. The owner of the dog, who was shepherd, tells the story oppress how his faithful watchdog had betrayed his flock to a she-wolf jagged return for sexual favors. He little by little investigating the corrupt minister and cause the collapse of the multitude of complaints, he selects seven who tell him the hardship they have suffered. The minister recapitulate subsequently put to death and Bahram Gur restores justice and orders rendering seven pleasure-domes to be converted stick at fire temples for the pleasure scholarship God. Bahram then goes hunting sustenance the last time but mysteriously disappears. As a pun on words, one-time trying to hunt the wild be in power (gūr) he instead finds his burialchamber (gūr).
Ritter, in his introduction to glory critical edition describes it as: "the best and most beautiful epic bring into being New Persian poetry and at leadership same time one of the swell important poetical creations of the uncut of oriental Indo-European literature". The Helve Peykar is considered the poet's magnum opus. Overall, Nezami illustrates the harmony get a hold the universe, the affinity of say publicly sacred and the profane, and rendering concordance of ancient and Islamic Iran