Manifestation of Islamic, Iranian and Azeri Folk Culture in Nezami's Works

Research on the culture, costumes and traditions of the land of Iran, not only enlightens a lot of dark points of the literature but also is important because of different aspects and reasons.Understanding the folk culture through literary texts also has a lot of advantages, some of which are mentioned in this article. The present article is a research on Islamic, Iranian and Azeri folk culture referring to Khamseh Nezami's works including Makhzan al Asriir, Khosro va Shinn, LeW va Majnoon, Haft Peikar and Eskandar Niimeh.Keywords: culture, folk culture, beliefs, costumes and traditions, poetic language, religious beliefs remedial beliefs, astronomical beliefs, social costumes and tratidtions, costumes and traditions of the court, tales, fables.