The cradle of the East's love poetry: Layla and Majnun, the love that drives one mad, immortalized by Nizami and turned into mystical allegory.
The cradle of the East's love poetry: Layla and Majnun, the love that drives one mad, immortalized by Nizami and turned into mystical allegory.
The poet driven mad by love
The poet driven mad with love for Layla, married off to another by force; his longing became a Sufi allegory of the soul seeking God.
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The love that spoke through a crack in the wall
Two Babylonian neighbors forbidden to love by their families, who whisper through a crack in the wall; a tragic misunderstanding leads them to a double suicide, sixteen centuries before Romeo and Juliet.
Read the storySome of the greatest are Layla & Majnun, Pyramus & Thisbe.