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Majnun Leyla - Poems About Passion (Paperback)
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Majnun Leyla - Poems About Passion (Paperback)
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In the northern Arabian Peninsula during the second half of the 7th
century, Qays, later known as Majnun, is in love with his cousin
Leyla and decides to praise her in his love poems. Annoyed by all
the noise around her, Leyla's parents consider that he has
compromised her honor and force her to marry another man. Qays
becomes desperate and wanders alone in the desert. His father takes
him to Mecca and begs him to seek God's help to free him from his
passion, but in vain. The story of Majnun and Leyla has been told
in legends, songs, poems, plays and epics from the Caucasus to
Africa and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. It is a story of
tragic and endless love, much like the later story of "Tristan and
Isolde" and "Romeo and Julia" in Europe. This volume consists of a
translation into English of several of Majnun's poems to Leyla
together with comments and an introduction. An incurable
romanticism, the deepest longing of the heart to its beloved,
nostalgia, memories of a lost paradise, idealism, anticipation, joy
after a reunion, bitterness after a separation, lovesickness and a
consuming passion emerge from the versions that have inspired
countless of people more that 1200 years ago and throughout the
centuries.
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