Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Лейли и Меджнун (Низами Гянджеви)" in Russian language version.
The most famous Persian rendering of this tale is the epic romance Layla va Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209 A.D.). His Layla and Majnun (1188 A.D.) is the third work in his Khamza (Quintet, a collection of five great epic poems), and was written by the order of Akhsatan, a king of the Shirvan-shah dynasty.
Its popularization was accelerated by Layli Majnun, a romantic epic of about 4,000 verses, composed in 1188 by Nizami, at the request of Akhsatan I of Azerbaijan.