The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition by Jokha Alharthi

The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition

Jokha Alharthi

288 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry

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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 medieva...

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