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The story of Qays and Layla or Layla and Majnun is based on the romantic poems of Qais Ibn Al-Mulawwah (Arabic: قيس بن الملوح) in 7th century Arabia, who was nicknamed Majnoon Layla (مجنون ليلى), Arabic for "madly in love with Layla", referring to his cousin Layla Al-Amiriah (ليلى العامرية). [2]
Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ o majnun) [1] is an old story of Arab origin, [2] [3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). [4]. Shakespeare copied it and with a ...
Layal (Arabic: ليال, pronounced ⓘ, lit. ' Nights '; plural of ليل layl or ليلة layla), [1] [2] sometimes romanized as Layale, is an Arabic feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: Layal Abboud (born 1982), Lebanese singer; Layale Chaker, French-Lebanese violinist and composer; Layal Khawly, Lebanese visual artist
The noun layla is a feminine noun in Hebrew, although grammatical gender does not indicate actual gender in Hebrew. Nevertheless, according to Elijah Ben Solomon, the " Vilna Gaon " (1720–1797), Talmudist , halachist , and kabbalist , the Hebrew noun laylah (night) is feminine in its very essence, but has the unusual quality of dualism that ...
Al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh (Arabic: الشفاء بنت عبد الله), whose given name was Laylā, was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Biography [ edit ]
Idries Shah finds the Abjad numerical equivalent of the Arabic title, alf layla wa layla, in the Arabic phrase ʾumm al-qiṣṣa, meaning 'mother of stories'. He goes on to state that many of the stories "are encoded Sufi teaching stories , descriptions of psychological processes, or enciphered lore of one kind or another".
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Layla bint al-Minhal (also Laila) (Arabic: ليلى بنت المنهال, romanized: Laylā bint al-Minhāl) was an Arab woman during the spread of Islam. She was a contemporary to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the wife of Malik ibn Nuwayra. Layla was the daughter of Al-Minhal and was later also known as Umm Tamim.