The Complete Majnun: Poems of Qays Ibn Al-Mulawwah and Nizami's Layla & Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi, Qays ibn al-Mullawah

The Complete Majnun: Poems of Qays Ibn Al-Mulawwah and Nizami's Layla & Majnun

Nizami Ganjavi, Qays ibn al-Mullawah with Paul Smith (Translator)

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Majnun was a real person! Qays (Majnun=’madman’) was a youth, a Bedouin poet in the seventh century of the Bani Amir tribe in the Najd desert in Arabia. He fell in love with Layla from the same tribe whom he was denied. (It is said that Shakespear...

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