{"product_id":"the-body-in-arabic-love-jokha-alharthi-9781474486330","title":"The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eJokha 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jokha Alharthi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474486339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474486330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Jokha Alharthi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993516245247,"sku":"9781474486330","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3eb20f81-e0d3-4309-8f7d-f75524686612.jpg?v=1683324766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-body-in-arabic-love-jokha-alharthi-9781474486330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}