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Original bdg. HC. 4to. (27 x 20 cm). In Middle-English. 125, [4] p., color ills. Leyli and Majnun. Translated by James Atkinson. Re-Edited with an introduction by L. Clanmer Byng. "The anxieties and stresses of the restless human soul are the central topic of the epic poem Leyli and Majnun - the third of the Khamsa epics, which Nizami wrote in 1188.". Leili and Majnun is a narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Ne?ami Ganjavi based on a semi-historical Arab story about the 7th century Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya). Nizami also wrote Khosrow and Shirin in the 12th century, a popular poem praising their love story. t is the third of his five long narrative poems, Panj Ganj (The Five Treasures). Lord Byron called it "the Romeo and Juliet of the East.