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In Arabic, the Majnun Layla narrative has been gathering meaning since at least the ninth century, and has inspired major artworks and dozens of adaptations, including by popular modern layla majnun poem arabic movies like Ahmad Shawqi and Salah Jahin. So when Haddad writes his Majnun Layla, he is writing against and inside all that literary and cultural history. The legend presents itself as a history of the real Umayyad poet Qays ibn Layla majnun poem arabic movies, who is obsessed with his beautiful cousin Layla. Indeed, Qays loves her so passionately that he is branded a madman. She never consummates her marriage, but remains faithful to Qays, who flees into the wilderness to compose poems about his true love. In the legend, their love is chaste, and the couple is united only in death. Haddad turns against tradition and takes the story in a completely different direction. Qays here is not a madman. Instead, he is a knowing violator layla majnun poem arabic movies societal taboos. The cycle of poems plays on the spaces between imagination, official histories, and unofficial ones. We still find him stepping out and escaping, over and over. Through windows in their bodies, he sees her running towards him. But she does not reach him. And he, running towards her, cannot reach her either. As we consider these objects, women demand that Qays recite his love poetry, and he does so in the hopes that Layla will hear him. They—the women—are in raptures from the love aroused in their beings, fires no moisture can smother. She also desires him, calls out for him, and arranges for them to meet. She is not just the object of affections, but is a subject as well. In our society, any fundamentalist can turn a writer into an enemy of the public, and this writer finds himself subject to humiliation and oppression simply because he spoke freely about love. If there is a point where the translation snags, it is in the overuse of transliterated words. Sometimes, these work well enough, such as kufiyya. In other places, like the use of the Arabic loan-word fatwait is jarring. After the Majnun Layla cycle, Ghazoul and Verlenden include another twenty-some selected poems.
The Legend of Leyli and Majnun
‘Chronicles of Majnun Layla & Selected Poems’: A Different Kind of Crazy – Arabic Literature (in English)
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