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The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The Udhri Tradition (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture) 🔍
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture, Edinburgh, 2021
Jokha Alharthi 🔍
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This book radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age. It challenges stereotypical ideas about the absence of the body in ʿUdhri love poetry. Investigating the ʿUdhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-Aghani, the book contributes to literary studies on the representations of the body. It also includes close readings of difficult literary texts in classical Arabic including the work of ʿUrwah b. Hizam, Majnun Layla, Qays b. Dharih, Jamil Buthaynah and Kuthayyir ʿAzzah.
The author 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, this book is an Arabic counterpart to the western medieval concept of unconsummated courtly love. It questions the traditional much-vaunted emphasis on chastity and the assumption that this poetry omits any concept of the body.
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Ǧūh̲aẗ al- Ḥārit̲ī
Alternative author
Jūkhah Ḥārithī
Alternative edition
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
1, PS, 2021
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lg3055144
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Alternative description
Jokha 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.
Alternative description
Jokha 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.0Alharthi 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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Title page
Copyright
Contents
Plates
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction: A Critical Reappraisal of Scholarship of the ‘Udhri Tradition
2 Reconstructing the Past
3 ‘Udhri Tradition between Chastity and Sensuality
4 The Representation of the Beloved’s Body
5 Present and Absent Bodies of the Beloved
6 Textuality versus Reality
7 The Representation of the Lover’s Body in the ‘Udhri Tradition
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Alternative description
Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids clichés about the purity of love in 'Udhri poetry, instead questioning the traditional emphasis on chastity and the assumption that this poetry omits any concept of the body
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2021-07-16
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