Quotes from Nizami Ganjavi's books, and about them
My Name Is Red on Khusrau and Shirin: “...the renowned master Sheikh Ali Tabrizi had illustrated a magnificent version of Hüsrev and Shirin.”
The Forty Rules of Love on Layla and Majnun: “We have read Layla and Majnun, Farhad and Shirin, Yusuf and Zuleikha, The Rose and the Nightingale—stories of lovers who have loved each other against all odds.”
The Bastard of Istanbul on Layla and Majnun: “The tales of Layla and Majnun, Yusuf and Zulaykha, the Moth and the Candle, or the Nightingale and the Rose....”
A Thousand Splendid Suns on Layla and Majnun: “Rasheed had playfully said, 'If it isn't Laili and Majnoon,' referring to the star-crossed lovers of Nezami's popular twelfth-century romantic poem”
My Name Is Red on Layla and Majnun: “...he entered the library like a common thief, opened the volume of Leyla and Mejnun...”