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Majnun in the desert among the wild beasts, 1500. An extremely thin Majnun sits with a leopard resting its head in his lap, and petting a deer. Around him are birds, a stag, a lion and a wolf. A figure watches him from behind a bush, and on the right of the image. Majnun goes to live in the wilderness after the father of the girl he loves, Layla, refuses him to marry him. From the "Khamsah" by Nizami, a Persian poet.