محمد أكمل بن ذوالميليMuhammad 'Akmal Bin Zulmayli2024-05-292024-05-292019-07Muhammad 'Akmal Zulmayli. (2019). Qissah layla wa-al-majnun bayn al-'adbayn al-'arabii wa-al-malayuwi : dirasah muqaranah [Master’s thesis, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia]. USIM Research Repository.https://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/12479Matric: 3140359Layla Majnun is the famous story in Arabic Literature. The story is about the affectionate, romantic, loving, and devoted life between Layla and Qais. It is also shared the same sentiments in the story of Layla Majnun in Malay Literature. The study aims to introduce the story of Layla Majnun in Arabic and Malay literature, and to discover the general literature aspects of both stories. Also to study the similarities and the differences in the story of Laila Majnun in Arabic Literature and Laila Majnun in Malay Literature, and the impacts of the Arabic version of story Laila Majnun toward the Malay film of Laila Majnun (1962) by B.N Rao. The researcher adopted the descriptive and comparative to examine the characteristics in the story of Layla Majnun in both versions. Based on the comparative study on the story of Laila Majnun in Arabic Literature and the Malay film of Laila Majnun (1962) by B.N Rao, researcher found that the similarities in the story of Laila Majnun in Arabic Literature and Laila Majnun in Malay Literature are more prominent than the differences, in term of the tittle of the story, the theme, characters, flow of events and so the story background. Therefore it explained that the impacts of the Arabic version of story Laila Majnun toward the Malay film of Laila Majnun (1962) by B.N Rao.otherEpic poetry, Persian.Arabic literatureThesis