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In the courtyard of the king - Layla and Majnun - old Persian silver hammered plaque - In the courtyard of the king - old Persian silver hammered attached on wood plaque, defects, dimensions: 21.5x15 cm. Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى‎), also Leili o Majnun (Persian: ليلى و مجنون‎), is a narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Neẓāmi Ganjavi based on a semi-historical Arab story about the 7th century Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya).[1][2][3][4] Nizami also wrote Khosrow and Shirin in the 12th century, a popular poem praising their love story.[5][6][7] It is the third of his five long narrative poems, Panj Ganj (Persian: پنج گنج) (The Five Treasures). Lord Byron called it “the Romeo and Juliet of the East.”