This book is that the first comprehensive analysis of Nezāmī's romance Laylī and Majnūn (1188). It examines key themes like chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the most characters. Majnūn's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society during which Laylī lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and eventually her death are discussed intimately . One chapter is devoted entirely to the various ways parents raise their children and therefore the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezāmī's style, the narrative structure of the romance and therefore the symbolism of your time and setting.
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