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The poem "Leila and Mejnun" by the prominent Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi is from the famous "Khamse" poetry.

The publication is a project of the State Translation Centre of Azerbaijan and is dedicated to the 880th anniversary of Nizami. The poem was translated into Ukrainian in 1947 by the prominent poet and translator Leonid Pervomaisky, and for the first time since then it is published in Ukraine as a separate edition. To date, it is the only poem by Nizami to be fully translated into Ukrainian. The preface to the edition includes the most significant statements about Nizami by the prominent Ukrainian scholar and orientalist Agatangel Krymsky in his monograph Nizami and His Contemporaries.

The poem is the first literary treatment of the ancient legend of the love of the young man Case, nicknamed «Majnun» («the one who went mad with love») and the girl Leila.