Author: Seyed-Gohrab, Ali Asghar.
Title: Layli and Majnun. Love, madness and mystic longing in Nizami's epic romance.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2003. XII,2],368 pp. Orig. hardcover (boards). (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 27).A comprehensive study of Nizami's romance, Layli and Majnun (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnun's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate and love-death are treated in separate chapters. Nizami Ganjavi (ca. 1141-1209), whose formal name was Jamal ad-Din Abu Mu?ammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zakki, was a Persian Sunni Muslim poet. Nezami is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature. - New price at the publisher: € 210,--

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