ARB 3901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Platonic Love, Sonnet 18, Ghazal
12 Apr 2018
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For example, from a reference to lost love in the naseeb (the prelude of one or two couplets) of a. Jahiliya poem, there developed a new genre of love petry (al-ghazal (serenading), attention: not ghazaal (deer)). An entire poem could be devoted to love. Arab speakers mistake hobb uthri for platonic love (no physical relation, only spiritual love). But this is wrong, since uthri comes from uthr, the family of jamil who invented a special kind of love poem. Of note among umayyad poets are these: omar ibn abi a(cid:271)i(cid:859)a (cid:894)644-719, jamil of udhra or jamil bouthaina (d. 701, qais ibn al-mulawwah (majnoun leila, al-akhtal, 55, 55. There is no more standing in the ruins, lamenting the departure of the beloved, but entered the detailed love scene with a narrative. He was the champion of the stand-alone love poem (al-ghazal); all of his life he wrote mostly love poems.
