The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition

Radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical ageChallenges the stereotypical idea about the absence of the body in 'Udhri love poetryInvestigates the 'Udhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including antholo...

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1. Verfasser: Alharthi, Jokha (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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Zusammenfassung:Radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical ageChallenges the stereotypical idea about the absence of the body in 'Udhri love poetryInvestigates the 'Udhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-AghaniContributes to literary studies on the representations of the bodyIncludes 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 'AzzahJokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clichés 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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (288 pages) 5 colour illustrations 4pp colour plate section
ISBN:9781474486361
DOI:10.1515/9781474486361

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