''Yusuf-Zulekha'' ( bn, ইউসুফ-জুলেখা) is a 15th-century
Bengali
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* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
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romantic story
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Genres and eras
* The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries
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in
verse written by
Shah Muhammad Sagir, which is considered one of the greatest literary works of medieval "golden era" of
Bengali literature; when Sagir was a court-poet of the
Sultan of Bengal
The Sultanate of Bengal ( Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা ''Shahī Baṅgala'', Classical Persian: ''Saltanat-e-Bangālah'') was an empire based in Bengal for much of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It was the domina ...
,
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দীন আজম শাহ, fa, ) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. He was one of the most prominent medieval Bengali sultans. He established diplomatic relatio ...
. Sagir wrote the story at the request of the Sultan.
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15th-century books
Bengali-language literature
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