Layla the Chaste

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• Layla, Daughter of the Desert/Layla the Bedouin — Layla the Chaste

  In 1937, the pioneering Egyptian filmmaker Bahiga Hafez (1901-1983) released an historical film entitled Layla, Daughter of the Desert (ليلى بنت الصحراء).  She both directed and starred in the film. ...

• Epic of al-Barraq Ibn Rawhan — Layla the Chaste

  The epic of al-Barraq Ibn Rawhan seems to have originated by the beginning of the 18th century,* and it was widely circulated in the 19th century.  Thus far I have tracked down seven sources of the ep...

• From Fiction to Fact: the Curious Evolution of an Arabic Epic — Layla the Chaste

  A British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship The Tale of al-Barraq Son of Rawhan is an anonymously-authored heroic epic and song cycle set in the fifth century, CE, about a knight-in-shining-armour who res...

• If only al-Barraq could see (English) — Layla the Chaste

              Collared and fettered in the open asked to do base things Say to the ˁAdnān, ‘You’ve been shown the way, tuck up for retribution from the detested clan 15   Tie banners in their lands, uns...

• Work starts today — Layla the Chaste

  This website dedicated to the legendary figure of Layla Bint Lukayz or Layla "the Chaste" is part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship entitled "From Fiction to Fact: the Curious Evolution of an...

• ليلى العفيفة — Layla the Chaste

  Layla al-'Afifa with Dar al-Ma'arif in Cairo.  According to Mahmud Qasim ( al-Film al-tarikhi fi al-sinima al-Misriyya), the novel served as the basis for the scenario of Bahiga Hafiz's 1937 film.  So...