The Body in Arabic Love Poetry - The Udhri Tradition (Paperback)

Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar cliches about the purity of love in 'Udhri poetry - broadly speaking, an Arabic counterpart to the western medieval concept of unconsummated courtly love - and instead questions the traditional much-vaunted emphasis on chastity and the assumption that this poetry omits any concept of the body. Alharthi focuses on the key differences between what the poetry itself says and the views of later sources about 'Udhri poets and their works. She also documents how the representation of the beloved in the 'Udhri ghazal was influenced by pre-Islamic poetry, showing how this tradition developed with a series of overlapping historical layers. And she breaks new ground by examining how this poetry treats not only the body of the beloved but also that of her lover, the poet himself.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Jokha Alharthi
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-8634-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4744-8634-7
Barcode:	9781474486347

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