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Majnun Leyla: Poems about Passion

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Product Code: 9789197764186
ISBN13: 9789197764186
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Majnun Leyla: Poems about Passion

$16.98
 
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 Majn?n'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.


Author: Joyce Akesson
Publisher: Pallas Athena Distribution
Publication Date: Dec 16, 2009
Number of Pages: 166 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 9197764183
ISBN-13: 9789197764186
 

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