Layla and Majnun by Colin Turner, Nizami Ganjavi

Layla and Majnun

Colin Turner, Nizami Ganjavi

256 pages first pub 1188 (editions)

fiction classics poetry romance emotional reflective slow-paced
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The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "r...

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