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Consisting of five long narrative poems, the volume is a collection of medieval romances that draw on themes of unrequited love, complementing the rich complexity of this botanical cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis design pays tribute to an 18th-century binding that housed the \u003cem\u003eKhamsa\u003c\/em\u003e, a seminal work by Persian Sunni Muslim poet \u003cem\u003eNizami Ganjavi\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1141–1209). Featuring intricate floral detail, our \u003cem\u003eLayla\u003c\/em\u003e cover design beautifully mirrors the contents of the original volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered the greatest romantic poet in Persian literature and described as a \u003cem\u003e“creator of poetic scenes,”\u003c\/em\u003e Nizami brought a colloquial and otherworldly quality to the Persian epic. His best-known work, the \u003cem\u003eKhamsa\u003c\/em\u003e (also known in English as the \u003cem\u003eFive Treasures\u003c\/em\u003e), is a series of five long narrative poems. The first of these, \u003cem\u003eMakhzan-ol-Asrâr\u003c\/em\u003e, was influenced by Sanai Ghaznavi’s \u003cem\u003eThe Walled Garden of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e, an early Sufi book of mystical poetry. The four other poems are medieval romances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNizami’s romance story of \u003cem\u003eLayla and Majnun\u003c\/em\u003e provided the namesake for Eric Clapton’s hit single “Layla,” from the album \u003cem\u003eLayla and Other Assorted Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e, which was highly influenced by Nizami and his poetry of unrequited love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe first introduced our Persian Poetry series in Spring 2024 with \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, a cover reproducing a 17th-century binding of the \u003cem\u003eBustan\u003c\/em\u003e by the poet and prose writer \u003cem\u003eSaadi\u003c\/em\u003e (1210–1291). 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