Yuriko Yamanaka. The Desert as a Realm of Unbound Passion: Love and Madness in the Tale of Layla and Majnun // Cultural change in the Arab world / Edited by Tetsuo Nishio. — Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan (National Ethnology Museum), 2001. — № 55. — С. 149. The most famous Persian rendering of this tale is the epic romance Layla va Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi (1141—1209 A.D.). His Layla and Majnun (1188 A.D.) is the third work in his Khamza (Quintet, a collection of five great epic poems), and was written by the order of Akhsatan, a king of the Shirvan-shah dynasty.