Poetry books from Azerbaijan
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Travel the world without leaving your chair.
If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Azerbaijan for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Layla and Majnun by Ganjavi Nizami, Niẓāmī Ganjavī EN
Country: Asia / Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Description:
The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God. This is a beautiful production, and it includes a final chapter newly translated from the Persian by Omid Safi and Zia Inayat Khan.