Spiritual values in philosophy of Nizami Ganjavi

This study focuses on the values that were discussed by the famous poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi in his book titled "Spiritual Values in Philosophy of Nizamİ Ganjavi". It aims to analyze all of Ganjavi's works to reveal and examine the religious and spiritual values he emphasized in his poems and stories by subjecting them to content analysis. The fact that no research has been conducted on the religious and spiritual values education in the Ganjavi thought so far is of great importance for our study, as it has led us to carrying out the present study. The study is composed of an introduction and two more sections, and the introduction section includes the research problems, aim and significance, method, and limitations subsections. The first section of the study comprises subjects such as Nizami Ganjavi's life, his works, his approach to education and religion, his scientific and literary character, the philosophers he influenced and he was influenced by, and his thoughts on life and humanity. The second section focuses on the religious and spiritual values addressed by Nizami, the meanings assigned by him to these values, and the behaviors he advised against. The study follows both a qualitative and quantitative research design, and in line with the nature of its research focus, is based on literature review. In the research, the content analysis method was used as a type of document analysis. Ganjavi's views on spiritual values, his work, and his research were reviewed through content analysis. In addition, so as to obtain some new and original data related to Nizami, some interviews were conducted with people who studied Nizami. With this study, the issues given top priority in the Nizami's world of values were identified and the necessary recommendations were made accordingly.