Layla and Majnun

Mythic Couples/Modern Meanings
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[@yousuf6382]

The original story was Arabic and was inspired by Arab traditions, the poet was an Arab, and the main character in the story was the Arab poet himself.. the story of the poet spread in many literatures and became legendary

[@Nour-cw1hw]

found u again ahhaah!

[@aliakbarhussaini7343]

Laila Majnu have written by Persian writer NEZAMI. But yeah the story characters is Arab.

[@amirawi]

Loving how excited and passionate he is about the subject.

[@jono.7350]

It Was Great Meeting Everyone! Thank You For Everything You Guy's Do

[@angelwings11111]

Sorry sir but you did not mention that it is actually happened in Arabia but originated in Azerbaijan by Nizami Ganjavi who named after Ganjavi nickname as he was from Ganja, Azerbaijani city and it is so-called best composed story and if you are interested in that poem there is also Mohammed Fuzuli’s version who is also turkish writer of all times. Thank you for your attention!

[@Zahra-qb7nm]

Azerbaijan was part of Iran back in days and the story which is a poem was written in farsi, in the story majnun was partly Arabian and asked one of his relative who had reputation of being benevolent to help him persuade leyli’s father but failed, it didnt happen IN Arabia

[@shinasuka1799]

Laila majun live during abassid caliphate

[@yousuf6382]

@@Zahra-qb7nm The original story was Arabic and was inspired by Arab traditions, the poet was an Arab, and the main character in the story was the Arab poet himself.. the story of the poet spread in many literatures and became legendary

[@sadihuseynzade5915]

@Bluish Grey It does not make him Persian because of his written language. The thing is, in this period, the Persian language was the most spoken language, even in Azerbaijan. That is why he chose to write his poems in the Persian language to reach more audiences. He lived and died in Ganja (one of the most ancient Azerbaijani cities). Even now, there are more than 35 million Azerbaijani live in Iran because of Persian imperialism. So, occupied nations' values should not be considered as an occupier country's value.

[@DavideGobbicchi]

interesting lecture on a mesmerizing fable too little known in the West, thank you.

[@user-xn5bq8uo6o]

I'm Majnoon from the East. Loved the girl whom I considered my Laila. Turns out Laila has her Romeo and she isn't my Laila 😭. She is Julieta. I really wanted her to be my Laila. God help me. I can't bear this pain anymore. Hopefully she will be my Laila oneday 😣🙏. There is a hope in my heart ♥.

[@albertnash888]

When you’re in love, it can drive you insane, as that’s what happened to Majnun when he was in love with Layla, who he couldn’t have because her parents object, but it was a similar, but different story when Eric Clapton was in love with Patti Boyd.

[@angeln2277]

Its an Arab story and its real unlike romeo and julite.. and there are many of the same stories in Arab history. Actually there is a tribe here in KSA than named "athar" which driven from the world virgin and its mean Virgin love which love with no sexual desire and interest.. its pure love, and you know why they named like this? because their men are famous of this kind of love and always write poems about their lovers. In Andalusia there is a palace which named after the khalifat lover,, Arabs name their places, houses, rivers, mountings, companies after their lovers,

[@sararifat]

It's a TURKISH story.

[@marwamarwa-zi5xy]

@@sararifat even mars is turkich

[@latifa8709]

Sara Rifat no it’s not , it’s a true story of arabic people and was in najd

[@matthewvalenzuela1441]

Sufi Story

[@Zahra-qb7nm]

The original peom is Persian :) majnun means insane in Farsi, leyla means divine and spiritual, the author is Nezami Ganjavi who is Iranian, the story is written in Farsi, it’s an Iranian story, comes from Sufi notion which has roots in Persian poems

[@MsZeyana]

This is powerful

[@luishernandezblonde]

Love how Nizami translated to Persian. Definitely.

[@potdog1000]

is this where Shakespear got his Romeo & juliet from?

[@aliakbarhussaini7343]

Thief

[@Zahra-qb7nm]

In the original poem her real name was Leyli tho, as there was a beyt “Leila of leyli” which God of leyli (poetic way of saying)

[@funguy29]

How is this related to 9/11 ?

[@mr.azrbaycan9496]

Genious Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyli wrote first opera in the Muslim world based on the poem of another genious Azerbaijani poet Fizuli! 🇦🇿

[@yousuf6382]

The original story was Arabic and was inspired by Arab traditions, the poet was an Arab, and the main character in the story was the Arab poet himself.. the story of the poet spread in many literatures and became legendary

[@thatsmeright1197]

No comment 😑

[@suerayss]

gosh westerners please please stop messing eastern names permenantly. Its NOT lay-la(layla) its Lie-la (leila) and its not Maj-noon (majnun) its just Maj-noo (majnu). How many centuries you are going to do this.. Our cities, our text, our philosophies, our culture is littered with mangled western pronounciation in every country you guys visited. Can we at least not create new ones in 21st century. Please please ask and take soem effort to find the original words and pronounciation and use that. Is that so much to ask for when we take so much effort to not change any single western name or city or town or country's name. I plead of you guys. Its annoying.

[@rkins698]

tube or not tube no it’s lay-lah and maj-nūn. Not sure where you got majnu from.

[@NisCho754]

r kins he probably got “Majnu” from the Urdu pronunciation, which is wrong coz the story isnt rom India anyways its from Saudi Arabia

[@enricomachado881]

Hahahahha you guys are so good

[@angeln2277]

@@NisCho754 yes, Iam Saudi and its happen hear my city ! why are they stealing our hisory !

[@latifa8709]

No it’s majnun and it comes from the arabic word (مجنون) which means crazy He was named majnun layla because he become crazy after what happened