Majnûn ou l’écho du désert comme paysage sublimé dans les manuscrits de la Khamsa de Nizâmî
Majnûn or The Desert Echo as Spiritual Landscape in Manuscript Copies of Nizâmî’s Khamsa

Summary/Abstract: The five tales of Nizami describe the spiritual journey that should lead to wisdom the main heroes and closer them to the divine. Majnun and Layla’s tale depicts a love story between two young Bedouin; upset, the young man loses his mind and takes refuge in madness in the desert. The desert then becomes the place of salvation, a privileged landscape just like a paradise where wild beasts lived peacefully. The desert separates Majnun from the civilized world but also changes the nature of the young man: he will lose his human features, becoming a kind of intermediary creature without material needs.

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