Passage: Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى ), also Leili o Majnun (Persian: ليلى و مجنون ), is a narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Niẓāmi Ganjavi about the Majnun. Maẓāmi Ganjavi wrote about the 7th century Nejdi Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his lady love Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya). Nizami also wrote Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian tragic romance, in the 12th century. It is a popular poem praising their love story. It is the third of his five long narrative poems, Panj Ganj (Persian: پنج پنج پنج) (The Five Treasures). Lord Byron called it <unk> akhî Ibn al-Qayla and Juliet of the Majnun. Maẓāmi Ganjavi wrote about the Majnun in 584/1188 based on a semi-historical Arab story about the 7th century Nejdi Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his lady love Layla
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