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Leily And Majnoun | align="center" colspan="2"| | | eyli persuading Majnun | Leyli and Majnun, or Layla and Majnun, is a classical Middle Eastern love story. It is supposedly based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Muwallah in the Umayyad era, who upon seeing Layla fell violently in love with her, and went mad when his father prevented him from marrying her; for that reason, he came to be called Majnun Layla, literally "Layla's madman". To him were attributed a variety of violently romantic Arabic poems, considered among the foremost examples of the Udhari school. From Arab folklore, it passed into Persian literature, and the Persian poet Nezami wrote a famous account of their love. It is a story of undying love much like a Romeo and Juliet of an early age. In Azerbaijan, the story was made into an opera first staged on January 25, 1908 by Uzeyir Hajibeyov. It also served as the inspiration for Eric Clapton's famous song Layla. See Also External links
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