The two lovers of this classic tale are remembered to this day in the poems and songs from the Caucasus to the interior of Africa, and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Nizami collected a number of folk versions and shaped them into a single narrative poem of some 4,000 stanzas near the end of the twelfth century. Compared for its beauty and genius to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the Sufis consider Nizami's Layla and Majnun an important parable of religious experience. Majnun, through his great love for Layla, is able to transcend individual identity and becomes the Beloved. Today it's still not very easy to get reference literature before travelling to Azerbaijan, either for tourism or business purposes.
Books abound and are cheap.
Naturally books come mostly in Azeri and Russian. You will still find vast numbers of books in Azeri printed in Cyrillic, but the latin alphabet editions are now taking over. Old editions are not difficult to find.