Humayni poetry emerged out of the strophic poetry that developed in Muslim Spain, was brought to Yemen by Sufis (Muslim mystics) and was adopted by Yemeni aristocrats at the turn of the seventeenth century. Although it used a low linguistic register to varying degrees, from the …
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The continuous tension between poetic creativity, social norms, and literary traditions that set the rules for textual production and interpretation has shaped the Yemeni history of poetic production. Acting as a "unitary language," literary traditions tend to unify poetic pract…