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Arabic Love Poetry from the Desert: Majnun Leyla, Arabic Text, Commentary and Translations Bruce Tallman and that we must wrestleThe main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al Mulawwah (d. 688), also known as Majn n Leyla "the one who was mad about Leyla". Each Arabic poem has an English translation on the facing page. The English text has footnotes referring to comments that are placed at the end of the work. The poems tell the story of Qays' love to his cousin, Leyla bint Mahdy (d. 688),