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Layla and Majnun

Fuzuli's Leyli and Majnun — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Author: Məhəmməd Füzuli
Published: 1536
Language: azərbaycanca

Fuzuli's most famous poem, written in Azerbaijani Turkic. The unfulfilled love of Qays and Layla becomes a soul's journey towards divine love. In 1908 Uzeyir Hajibeyli based the first opera of the East on it.

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