Layli & Majnun /
"For its subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, the verse of the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami has been compared to that of Shakespeare, and in the same way that Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" has become the archetypal Western love story, so Nezami's "Layl...
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[Odenton, Maryland?] :
Mage Publishers,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The beginning of the story
- Layli and Majnun fall in love with one another
- A description of Majnun's love
- Majnun goes to Layli's home and sings there
- Majnun's father goes to ask for Layli's hand in marriage
- Majnun's love for Layli drives him into the wilderness
- Majnun's father takes him to Mecca
- Men from Layli's tribe turn against Majnun
- Majnun's father advises his son
- Majnun's reply to his father
- Layli's beauty
- A description of Layli ; Layli visits a palm grove
- Ebn Salam asks for Layli's hand in marriage
- Nofal sympathizes with Majnun
- Nofal fights Layli's tribe on behalf of Majnun
- Majnun's anger against Nofal
- Nofal's second battle
- Majnun frees deer from a hunter's trap
- Majnun frees another deer from a huntsman
- Majnun talks to a raven
- Majnun deliberately becomes an old woman's prisoner
- Layli's father gives her to Ebn Salam
- Majnun learns of Layli's marriage
- Majnun complains of Layli to the wind
- Majnun's father goes to see his son
- Majnun answers his father
- Majnun's father bids him farewell
- Majnun learns of his father's death
- Majnun among the animals
- A tale
- A description of night ; Majnun's invocation to the heavens
- A message from Layli reaches Majnun
- Majnun reads Layli's letter
- Majnun's letter reaches Layli
- Majnun's uncle, Salim Amiri, comes to see Majnun
- A tale
- Majnun is told of his mother's death
- Layli sends a message to Majnun
- Majnun sings in Layli's presence
- Salam Baghdadi comes to see Majnun
- On the greatness of Majnun
- Zayd's love for Zaynab
- The death of Layli's husband, Ebn Salam
- Zayd tells Majnun of Layli's husband's death
- Layli prays to God
- Layli and Majnun come together again
- A description of autumn ; the death of Layli
- Majnun learns of Layli's death
- Salam Baghdadi comes to visit Majnun for the second time
- Majnun dies on Layli's grave
- Zayd dreams that he sees Layli and Majnun in heaven
- Notes