in
Baku • In the Gilded Wolves trilogy by
Roshani Chokshi, one of the main characters, named Layla, calls another main character "Majnun". • The tale and the name "Layla" served as
Eric Clapton's inspiration for the title of
Derek and the Dominos' album
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and its
title track in 1970. The song "I Am Yours" is a direct quote from a passage in
Layla and Majnun. •
Tedeschi Trucks Band released
I Am the Moon in 2022, a four-part album inspired by
Layla and Majnun. • In
Humayun Ahmed's
Noy Number Bipod Sanket, a song written by him and rendered by
Meher Afroz Shaon and
S I Tutul, is titled
Laili-Mojnu, Shiri-Forhad, Radha-Krishna. • In
Cassandra Clare's Chain of Gold, half Persian character Cordelia Carstairs is nicknamed Layla as a term of endearment and to show her family's love of the story. • In
Gary Jennings' novel
The Journeyer, a fictionalized
Marco Polo is told by a Persian physician that Layla and Majnun possessed the magical ability to
transform their bodies at will, changing their appearance, age, or gender, even becoming animals or mythical creatures; and that they would then copulate in various combinations of these forms, as inspiration for their poetry. The physician is also an alchemist, and has concocted a drug intended to recreate this ability. Marco tries it on himself and a prostitute, with disastrous results. • The tale served as the inspiration for
Halim El-Dabh's early
electronic tape music composition called
Leiyla and the Poet in 1959. • The tale of Layla and Majnun has been the subject of various films produced by the
Indian film industry beginning in the 1920s. One,
Laila Majnu, was produced in 1976. In 2007, the story was enacted as both a framing story and as a dance-within-a-movie in the film
Aaja Nachle. Also, in pre-
independence India, the first
Pashto-language film was an adaptation of this story. •
Orhan Pamuk makes frequent reference to Leyla and Majnun in his novels,
The Museum of Innocence and
My Name is Red. • One of the panels in the
Alisher Navoi metro station in
Tashkent (
Uzbekistan) and
Nizami Gəncəvi metro station in
Baku (
Azerbaijan) represents the epic on blue green tiles. • In the book
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Afghan author
Khaled Hosseini, Rasheed often refers to Laila and Tariq as
Layla and Majnun. •
South African author
Achmat Dangor, of mixed
Indian descent, makes reference to Leyla and Majnun in his novels, "Waiting for Leila" and "Kafka's Curse" • On
Gaia Online, a recent monthly collectible released an item under the names Majnun and Layla loosely based on the story. •
Layla and Majnun – poem of
Alisher Navoi. •
Layla and Majnun – poem of
Jami. •
Layla and Majnun – poem of
Nizami Ganjavi. •
Layla and Majnun – poem of
Fuzûlî. •
Layla and Majnun – poem of
Hagiri Tabrizi. •
Layla and Majnun – drama in verse of
Mirza Hadi Ruswa. •
Layla and Majnun – novel of Necati. •
Leyli and Majnun – the first Muslim and the Azerbaijani opera of
Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1908). •
Layla and Majnun – symphonic poem of
Gara Garayev (1947). •
Leyli and Majnun – ballet by Gara Garayev (1969). • Symphony No. 24 ("Majnun"), Op. 273 (1973), for tenor solo, trumpet, choir and strings –
Alan Hovhaness. •
The Song of Majnun – opera of
Bright Sheng (1992) •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi silent film in 1922. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi silent film in 1927. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi film in 1931. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi film in 1931. •
Laila Majnun — Malayan Malay film in 1933. •
Majnu
– Indian Hindi film of 1935 by Roshan Lal Shorey. •
Layla and Majnun – Iranian film in 1936. •
Laila Majnu
– Indian Hindi film of 1945 by
Nazir, starring Nazir and
Swarnalata. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Telugu film in 1949. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi film of 1953 directed by
K. Amarnath, starring
Shammi Kapoor and
Nutan. •
Laila – Indian Hindi film of 1954 directed by Naseem Siddique, starring
Shakila. •
Ishq-e-Laila – 1957 Pakistani film featuring
Sabiha Khanum and
Santosh Kumar. •
Laila Majnu – 1957 Pakistani film starring
Bahar and
Aslam Pervaiz •
Laila Majnu – Pakistani film in 1974 starring
Waheed Murad and
Rani. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Hindi film in 1976. •
Laila Majnu – Indian Bengali film of 1976 by Sachin Adhikari. •
Laily Majnu – Bangladeshi film in 1976 starring
Razzak and
Babita. •
Majnoon – unreleased Indian Hindi film from 1979 by
Kamal Amrohi, starring
Rajesh Khanna and
Rakhee Gulzar. •
Leyla ile Mecnun – Music album of
Orhan Gencebay in 1981. •
Leyla İle Mecnun – Turkish film of 1982 starring
Orhan Gencebay and
Gülşen Bubikoğlu. •
Sun Meri Laila – Indian Hindi film of 1983 by Chander H. Bahl, starring
Deepika Chikhalia and
Raj Kiran. •
Laila – Indian Hindi film of 1984 by
Saawan Kumar Tak, starring
Poonam Dhillon and
Anil Kapoor. •
Love And God (1986) — Indian Hindi film directed by
K. Asif •
Leyla und Medjnun – 1988 opera by
Detlev Glanert. •
Layla and Majnun – Azerbaijani film-opera of 1996. •
Majnoon – 2003 Indian film by Aashish Chanana, starring Chanana and
Sucheta Khanna set in the modern
Bollywood industry. •
Aaja Nachle— a 2007 Indian film has a 15-minute musical play on life of Layla and Majnun. •
Majnoon Layla— is a song on
Omar Offendum's debut solo album SyrianamericanA, retelling the story as a rap song •
Leyla ile Mecnun – is a Turkish television comedy series in 2011. •
Habibi – is a 2011 film by Susan Youssef filmed in the
Gaza Strip. •
Double Barrel – is a Malayalam Movie in 2015. •
Tamasha – is a Hindi movie of 2015. A musical story in this movie has parts of Laila Majnu duet. •
Laila The Musical – British theatre production by
Rifco Arts,
Watford Palace Theatre and
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch toured England during 2016. •
Layla and Majnun – dance-drama, a collaboration of
Mark Morris,
Silk Road Ensemble and
Howard Hodgkin; 2016 premiere by
Cal Performances. •
Laila Majnu – is a 2018 Hindi movie based on the legend of Laila Majnu set in Kashmir. •
Ye Kahani Hai Laila Majnu Ki – Indian
Bhojpuri film of 2020 by Mahmud Alam, starring
Pradeep Pandey,
Sonalika Prasad, and
Akshara Singh. • In
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the titular character Sargon wields twin swords named after Qays and Layla. Such a naming is an
anachronism, as the game is set in
pre-Islamic time, during the age of
Achaemenid dynasty. == See also ==