Sir William Jones published Hatefi's romance in Calcutta in 1788. 1520), and Fuzûlî (d.1556), which became popular in Ottoman Turkey and India. Other notable reworkings are by Maktabi Shirazi, Hatefi (d. Many imitations have been contrived of Nizami's work, several of which are original literary works in their own right, including Amir Khusrow Dehlavi's Majnun o Leyli (completed in 1299), and Jami's version, completed in 1484, amounts to 3,860 couplets. Nizami drew influence from Udhrite love poetry, which is characterized by erotic abandon and attraction to the beloved, often by means of an unfulfillable longing. Subsequently, many other Persian poets imitated him and wrote their own versions of the romance. Nizami collected both secular and mystical sources about Majnun and portrayed a vivid picture of the famous lovers. The anecdotes are mostly very short, only loosely connected, and show little or no plot development. 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'. Long before Nizami, the legend circulated in anecdotal forms in Iranian akhbar. His tribe Banu 'Amir and the community gave him the epithet of Majnūn ( مجنون "crazy", lit. 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. Lord Byron called it "the Romeo and Juliet of the East."
It is a popular poem praising their love story. "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. Layla & Majnun ( Arabic: مجنون ليلى Majnūn Laylā, (Persian: لیلی و مجنون) 'Layla's Mad Lover' ) is an old story of Arabic origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya).
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