Kamran Djam Annual Lecture 2016, Part 2, SOAS University of London

This is the second of two lectures that made up the Kamran Djam Annual Lecture 2016 which was held at the London Middle East Institute’s Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS University of London. The lecture titled “The quest of Majnûn: tribulations of a lover“ was given by Leili Anvar (Institut des Langues et des Civilsations Orientales, Paris) on 4 February 2016. Majnûn is the poet-lover par excellence. His story as told by the original tradition in Arabic literature and eve