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• The tale and the name "Layla" served as Eric Clapton's inspiration for the title of Derek and the Dominos' famous album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and its title track in 1971. The song "I Am Yours" is a direct quote from a passage in Layla and Majnun.
• The tale served as the inspiration for Halim El-Dabh's early electronic tape music composition called Leiyla and the Poet in 1959.
• The tale of Layla and Majnun has been the subject of various films produced by the Indian film industry beginning in the 1920s. A list may be found here: http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article419176.ece. One, Laila Majnun, was produced in 1976. In 2007, the story was enacted as both a framing story and as a dance-within-a-movie in the film Aaja Nachle. There is a reference to the story in the song 'Laila' from the film Qurbani. Also, in pre-partition India, the first Pashto-language film was an adaptation of this story.
• The term Layla-Majnun is often used for lovers, also Majnun is commonly used to address a person madly in love.
• Orhan Pamuk makes frequent reference to Leyla and Majnun in his novels, The Museum of Innocence and My Name is Red.
• One of the panels in the Alisher Navoi metro station in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Nizami Gəncəvi metro station in Baku (Azerbaijan) represents the epic on blue green tiles.
• In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, Rasheed often refers to Laila and Tariq as Layla and Majnun.
• On Gaia Online, a recent monthly collectible released an item under the names Majnun and Layla loosely based on the story.

• Layla and Majnun — poem of Alisher Navoi.
• Layla and Majnun — poem of Jami.
• Layla and Majnun — poem of Nizami Ganjavi.
• Layla and Majnun — poem of Fuzûlî.
• Layla and Majnun — poem of Hagiri Tabrizi.
• Layla and Majnun — drama in verse of Mirza Hadi Ruswa.
• Layla and Majnun — novel of Necati.
• Layla and Majnun — the first Muslim and the Azerbaijani opera of Uzeyir Hajibeyov.
• «Layla and Majnun» — symphonic poem of Gara Garayev (1947)
• Symphony № 24 ("Majnun"), Op. 273 (1973), for tenor solo, violin, choir and chamber orchestra - Alan Hovhaness.
• Layla and Majnun — ballet, staged by K. Goleizovsky (1964) © on music SA Balasanyan.
• «The Song of Majnun» — opera of Bright Sheng (1992)
• Laila Majnu — Indian Hindi silent film in 1922.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Hindi silent film in 1927.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Hindi film in 1931.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Hindi film in 1931.
• Layla and Majnun — Iranian film in 1936.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Telugu film in 1949.
• Layla and Majnun — Tajik Soviet film-ballet of 1960.
• Layla and Majnun — Soviet Azerbaijani film of 1961.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Malayalam film in 1962.
• Laila Majnu — Indian Hindi film in 1976.
• Leyla ile Mecnun — Music album of Orhan Gencebay in 1981.
• Leyla ile Mecnun — Turkish drama film in 1982.
• Layla and Majnun — Azerbaijani film-opera of 1996.
• Aaja Nachle— a 2007 Indian film has a 15 minute musical play on life of Layla and Majnun.
• Leyla ile Mecnun — is a Turkish television comedy series in 2011.