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1520), and Fuzûlî (d.1556), which became popular in Ottoman Turkey and India. Other notable reworkings are by Maktabi Shirazi, Hatefi (d.

Many imitations have been contrived of Nizami's work, several of which are original literary works in their own right, including Amir Khusrow Dehlavi's Majnun o Leyli (completed in 1299), and Jami's version, completed in 1484, amounts to 3,860 couplets. Nizami drew influence from Udhrite love poetry, which is characterized by erotic abandon and attraction to the beloved, often by means of an unfulfillable longing. Subsequently, many other Persian poets imitated him and wrote their own versions of the romance. Nizami collected both secular and mystical sources about Majnun and portrayed a vivid picture of the famous lovers. The anecdotes are mostly very short, only loosely connected, and show little or no plot development. The early anecdotes and oral reports about Majnun are documented in Kitab al-Aghani and Ibn Qutaybah's Al-Shi'r wa-l-Shu'ara'. Long before Nizami, the legend circulated in anecdotal forms in Iranian akhbar. His tribe Banu 'Amir and the community gave him the epithet of Majnūn ( مجنون "crazy", lit. Qays and Layla fell in love with each other when they were young, but when they grew up Layla's father didn't allow them to be together. Lord Byron called it "the Romeo and Juliet of the East."

It is a popular poem praising their love story. "The Layla-Majnun theme passed from Arabic to Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages", through the narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, as the third part of his Khamsa. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century.Layla & Majnun ( Arabic: مجنون ليلى‎ Majnūn Laylā, 'Layla's Mad Lover' ) is an old story of Arabic origin, about the 7th-century Najdi Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. 1853-1933), a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabati poetic tradition. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet's love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life. Love poems from late nineteenth-century ArabiaĪrabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit perilous desert crossings scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle.