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Arabic literature
Arabic poetry
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classical Arab poetry
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Ghazal
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the body
Udhri
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- ISBN 9781474486347
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age
Challenges the stereotypical idea about the absence of the body in 'Udhri love poetry
Investigates the 'Udhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-Aghani
Contributes to literary studies on the representations of the body
Includes close readings of difficult literary texts in classical Arabic including the work of 'Urwah b. Hizam, Majnun Layla, Qays b. Dharih, Jamil Buthaynah and Kuthayyir 'Azzah
Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clich s 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.
Jokha Alharthi is Associate Professor of Classical Arabic Literature in Sultan Qaboos University. She is the author of several short story collections and novels, including Celestial Bodies, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019.
