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Classic Persian legend, a favorite of the Sufis, as told by twelfth-century poet Nizami.
An English translation of Nizami’s twelfth-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover, an allegory of the soul’s search for God. Includes a final chapter translated especially for this edition by Omid Safi and Pir Zia Inayat Khan.
Nizami is the pen-name of Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu’ayyad (c.1141–1209), a poet from the Transcaucasian city of Ganja. The Story of Layla and Majnun is one of five epic poems written by Nizami, and is considered to be a classic work of Sufi literature.
- ISBN-13
- 9780930872526
- Publisher
- Omega Publications
- Imprint
- Suluk Press
- Publication date
- 1 February 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 177
- Dimensions
- 229 x 134 mm
- Language
- English
