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Majnu (other)
Majnu often refers to Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah, an Arab bedouin poet best known from ''Layla and Majnun'', a tragic romance from classical Arabic. Majnu or Majnun or Majnoon (; in Arabic) may also refer to: People *Majnun Gorakhpuri (1904–1988), Urdu poet *Majnu Shah (died 1787), Indian freedom fighter *Shams al Faransi, subject of the Arabic love story ''Marwa and al-Majnun al-Faransi'' *Sagar Pandey "Majnu Bhai", a fictional criminal in the 2007 Indian film ''Welcome'' Films * ''Majnu'' (1987 film), a 1987 Indian Telugu-language film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna and Rajani *''Majunu'', a 2001 Indian Tamil-language film by Ravichandran * ''Majnu'' (2016 film), an Indian Telugu-language film starring Nani * ''Majnun'' (film), a 2016 Uzbek film *''Mr. Majnu'', a 2019 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film by Venky Atluri *'' Mission Majnu'', a 2023 Indian spy-thriller film by Shantanu Bagchi * ''Majnu'' (2022 film), an Indian Marathi-language drama film by Shivaji Doltade Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla And Majnun
''Layla & Majnun'' ( ar, مجنون ليلى ; '''Layla's Mad Lover) is an old story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layla-Majnun theme passed from Arabic to Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages", through the narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, as the third part of his ''Khamsa''. It is a popular poem praising their love story. Qays and Layla fell in love with each other when they were young, but when they grew up Layla's father didn't allow them to be together. Qays became obsessed with her. His tribe Banu 'Amir and the community gave him the epithet of ''Majnūn'' ( "crazy", lit. "possessed by Jinn"). Long before Nizami, the legend circulated in anecdotal forms in Iranian ''akhbar''. The early anecdotes and oral reports about Majnun are documented in ''Kitab al-Aghani'' and Ibn Qutaybah's ''Al-Shi'r wa-l-Shu'ara'.'' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
