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Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ o majnun) [1] is a Persian poem by the 12th century Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi, inspired by an old story of Arab origin, [2] [3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla binti ...
It is based on the story of the ancient Arabic legend "Layla and Majnun" about the unhappy love [3] of the young man Qays, nicknamed "Majnun" ("The Madman"), towards beautiful Layla. The poem is dedicated to Shirvanshah Ahsitan I, and was written on his order. [4] There are 4600 stanzas in the poem.
Khosrow and Shirin, Bahram-e Gur, and Alexander the Great, who all have episodes devoted to them in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, [1] appear again here at the center of three of four of Nezami's narrative poems. The adventure of the paired lovers, Layla and Majnun, is the subject of the second of his four romances, and derived from Arabic sources. [1]
Leyli and Majnun (Azerbaijani: Leyli və Məcnun, لیلی و مجنون) is an epic poem written in Azerbaijani by the 16th-century poet Fuzuli.The poem, written in the form of a mathnawi (rhyming couplets), tells the story of a young man named Qays who falls in love with a girl named Leyli and earns the nickname "Majnun" (lit.
The Story of Layla and Majnun by Nizami, was edited and translated into English by Swiss scholar of Islamic culture Rudolf Gelpke and published in 1966. [27] A comprehensive analysis in English containing partial translations of Nizami's romance Layla and Majnun examining key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis ...
Khosrow Parviz's first sight of Shirin, bathing in a pool, in a manuscript of Nezami's poem. This is a famous moment in Persian literature. This is a famous moment in Persian literature. The Sasanian shah Khosraw and Courtiers in a Garden , Page from a manuscript of Ferdowsi 's Shahnameh , late 15th-early 16th century.
In 1901, French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection, and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect."
Laila Majnu Ki Mazar (lit=the mausoleum of Layla and Majnun) is situated at Binjaur, a village near Anupgarh in the Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. According to the local legend, the famous lovers Laila and Majnu died here. A fair, held annually in the month of June, is attended by hundreds of couples and newlyweds.