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 court…
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