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.
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