The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak: “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 by Elif Shafak: “The tales of Layla and Majnun, Yusuf and Zulaykha, the Moth and the Candle, or the Nightingale and the Rose....”
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: “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 by Orhan Pamuk: “...he entered the library like a common thief, opened the volume of Leyla and Mejnun...”