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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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Notes
Nizami, Layla va Majnun, Bihruz Sarvatiyan, ed. (Tehran: Intisharat-i Tus, 1364 [1986]). All quotations from Nizami will be from this text unless otherwise noted and will be cited by page number only. All English translations in this chapter are by Walter G. Andrews, who is obligated to Hadi Sultan-Qurraie for help with the translation of several passages from Nizami.
Agah Sirri Levend, Arap, Fars, ve Türk Edebiyatlarinda Leyla ve Mecnun Hikâyesi (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1959).
Kenan Akyüz, Süheyl Beken, Sedit Yüksel, Müjgan Cumbur, eds., Fuzūlī, Divanı (Ankara: Akcaǧ Yayınları, 1990), p. 306.
See, Ali Nihat Tarlan, Fuzuli Divani Şerhi III (Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlıǧı Yayınları, 1985), p. 186.
Behcet Necatigil, “Sevda Peşinde,” (originally published in a collection called Kapalı Çarı) Bütün Eserleri: Şiirler 1938–1958 (Istanbul, 1995), p. 42.
Rafet El-Roman, Bah Ueşehir Magazin No. 11 (Spring 1996), p. 25.
Vahid Dastgirdi, ed., Namah-i Layli va Majnun Nizami Ganjavi (Tehran: Muassasah-i Matbuat-i Ilmi, 1972). Levend, Arap, Fars, ve Türk.
Rudolf Gelpke, ed. and trans., The Story of Layla and Majnun (Oxford: Cassimer, 1966). A. N. Tarlan, ed. and trans., Fuzuli: Leyla ile Mecnun (Istanbul: M. E. B. Şark-İslam Klâsikleri, 1943).
Robert Dankoff, “The Lyric in the Romance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Masnavīs,” JNES 43:1 (1984), pp. 9–25.
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Kalpaklī, M., Andrews, W.G. (2000). Layla Grows Up: Nizami’s Layla and Majnun “in The Turkish Manner”. In: Talattof, K., Clinton, J.W. (eds) The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09836-8_3
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