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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 ...
Layla and Majnun" (Persian لیلی و مجنون) is the third poem of the classic of Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209, Ganja). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This poem is included in " Khamsa " and was written in 1188 in Persian.
Nizami's story Layla and Majnun also provided the namesake for a hit single by Eric Clapton, also called "Layla". Recorded with the group Derek and the Dominos , the song was released on the 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs .
Leyli o Majnun (لیلی و مجنون, 'Layla and Majnun'), 1192; Eskandar-Nâmeh (اسکندرنامه, 'The Book of Alexander'), 1194 or 1196–1202; Haft Peykar (هفت پیکر, 'The Seven Beauties'), 1197; The first of these poems, Makhzan-ol-Asrâr, was influenced by Sanai's (d. 1131) monumental Garden of Truth. The four other poems are ...
It talks about Layla and Majnun, a tragic love story by Nizami Ganjavi. [3] The film consists of twelve to fourteen songs, leading it to become the first and the only film of the Pakistani film industry with maximum number of songs recorded till century.
It is the case of other classical epics such as Layla and Majnun, Kerem and Asli, Siyabend and Xece. ... The epic is a love story but it also explores the sociopolitical life of the 14th century ...
The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Persian literature and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, [1] a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in ...
Here, we follow the story of a young Eritrean woman who crossed mountains, oceans and deserts to escape the small, secretive East African nation. This series is based on research by the Overseas Development Institute, Journeys to Europe, was produced by PositiveNegatives, and was animated by The Huffington Post.