Khosrow and Shirin is the title of a famous Persian tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209) who also wrote Layla Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love of the Sassanian king Khosrow II for the Armenian princess Shirin, who becomes his queen. Khosrow & Shirin c. 1190 Nezami Ganjawi . On lofty Beysitoun the lingering sun looks down on ceaseless labors, long begun: The mountain trembles to the echoing sound Of falling rocks, that from her sides rebound. Each day all respite, all repose denied--- shirin ebadi "if human rights fail to be manifested in codified laws or put into effect by states, then, as rendered in the pream-ble of the universal declaration of human rights, human beings will be left with no choice other than staging a 'rebellion against tyranny and oppression'" a prominent lawyer and former judge, shirin The encounter between Shirin and Farhad is part of a longer and much more tragic love story of Shirin and Khusrow.. Farhad, the bearded man in the images, was a humble engineer, artist and craftsmen famed for his skill at carving rock, who served Shirin, the Queen of Armenia. Farhad fell in love with Shirin. Textual Criticism of Persian Literature, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Issue 2018 Layer Semiotics Reading in the Semantic Process of Nezami's Khosrow and Shirin Mohsen Zolfaghary Professor of Persian language and literature, faculty of literature and humanities, Arak University, Iran, Shirin (? - 628 AD) (Persian: ????? ?) was a wife of the Sassanid Persian Shahanshah (king of kings), Khosrow Parviz.In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrow to Syria, where they lived under the protection of Byzantine emperor Maurice. The Story of Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi A story of pre-Islamic Persian origin which is found in the great epico-historical poems of Shahnameh and is b