Saturday 5 May 2012

The Story of Layla / Layla and Majnun - Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_and_Majnun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla

The title, "Layla," was inspired by The Story of Layla / Layla and Majnun (ليلى و مجنون), by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi of the Ganja (prese...nt day Azerbaijan) Seljuq empire.[4] It is based on the true story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Arabic: قيس بن الملوح) from the northern Arabian Peninsula, in the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th century. When he wrote "Layla," Clapton had been told the story by his friend Ian Dallas,[3] who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami's tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to someone other than the one who was desperately in love with her, resulting in Majnun's madness (A name, مجنون, which translates to "madman" in Arabic), struck a deep chord with Clapton.See more

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