Layla grows up: Nizami’s Layla and Majnun “in the Turkish Manner”

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2000
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Palgrave Macmillan
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29 - 49
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English
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Abstract

Sometime in the last fifteen years of the twelfth century, the Shirvanshah Akhsatan made a request of the poet Nizami: Mīkhāham ke konūn be yād-e majnūn rānī sokhan cho dorr-e maknūn (48)1 I wish you now in Majnun’s recollection to speak poetic words like pearls of perfection

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The poetry of Nizami Ganjavi : knowledge, love, and rhetoric
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Turkish version, Turkish manner, Lyric poet, Lyric poetry, Early fourteenth century
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