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Layli and Majnun

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 12032021
"'Layli and Majnun' tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. The twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami blends erotic longing and spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the a...
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