چکیده (انگلیسی):

This article is a comparative analysis of the eighteenth-century British Orientalist Isaac D’Israeli’s romance Mejnoun
and Leila (1797) with its original source Leyli o Majnun (1188) by Nezami of Ganja (1141-1209). Nezami, a twelfthcenturyPersian poet, is considered the greatest romantic epic poet inPersian literature. The idea of the love of Leyli and
Majnun is raised as being primarily an earthly love, yet it is transcended intoa divine type of love through suffering and
hence loss of self in the Other. The article discusses the extent to which D’Israeli’s treatment of Sufism in his romance
is sympathetic with Nezami’s work.