10-551: [REDACTED] Look up Leila in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leila may refer to: Leila (name) , a female given name, including a list of people with the name and its variants Books [ edit ] Leila; or, The Siege of Granada novel Leila (novel) , 2017 novel by Indian journalist Prayaag Akbar Film and television [ edit ] Leila (1997 film) , an Iranian film Leïla (2001 film) ,
20-762: A Danish film Leila (TV series) , Indian television series Music [ edit ] Leila (music producer) or Leila Arab, Iranian musician now living in the United Kingdom "Leila" (song) , a 1981 song by ZZ Top from El Loco "Leïla", a 1994 song by Lara Fabian from Carpe Diem Other uses [ edit ] Leila, Estonia , a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, Estonia See also [ edit ] Laila (disambiguation) Layla (disambiguation) Leela (disambiguation) Lejla (disambiguation) Lelia (disambiguation) Lela (disambiguation) Leľa ,
30-627: A Danish film Leila (TV series) , Indian television series Music [ edit ] Leila (music producer) or Leila Arab, Iranian musician now living in the United Kingdom "Leila" (song) , a 1981 song by ZZ Top from El Loco "Leïla", a 1994 song by Lara Fabian from Carpe Diem Other uses [ edit ] Leila, Estonia , a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, Estonia See also [ edit ] Laila (disambiguation) Layla (disambiguation) Leela (disambiguation) Lejla (disambiguation) Lelia (disambiguation) Lela (disambiguation) Leľa ,
40-548: A municipality in Slovakia Lila (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leila . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leila&oldid=1197935174 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
50-485: A municipality in Slovakia Lila (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leila . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leila&oldid=1197935174 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
60-608: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leila [REDACTED] Look up Leila in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leila may refer to: Leila (name) , a female given name, including a list of people with the name and its variants Books [ edit ] Leila; or, The Siege of Granada novel Leila (novel) , 2017 novel by Indian journalist Prayaag Akbar Film and television [ edit ] Leila (1997 film) , an Iranian film Leïla (2001 film) ,
70-574: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leila; or, The Siege of Granada Leila; or, The Siege of Granada is a historical romance novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton published in 1838. The novel is set in Granada , Spain at the end of the Middle Ages — beginning in the summer of 1491. It was originally published in an expensive form, with many engraved illustrations. The preface to
80-459: The 1860 edition explains that the novel has been less popular than his other works of fiction due to the prejudice against literary works that are thought to owe their value, in part, to the illustrations. In Leila , as the double title suggests, there is a double storyline: the domestic story of the daughter (Leila) and the public story of the nation. Leila's father, Almamen, switches allegiances between Christian and Moor in what eventually becomes
90-470: The altar of a convent in which Leila is about to take her vows as a nun, and her father kills her. The domestic plot parallels the Christianization of Spain. Giuseppe Apolloni : L'ebreo opera This article about a historical novel of the 1830s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on
100-556: The famous Siege of Granada . Almamen attempts to guard his daughter's Jewish heritage by keeping her away from her Moorish lover, Muza. He inadvertently delivers her into the hands of the Christian monarchs, and Leila is subjected to the procedures of conversion by the queen's intermediary, Donna Inez. In the double story line, the conquest of Muslim Granada runs parallel to the conversion of the Jewish Leila. The characters meet at
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