ḥubb ʿudhrī

Arabic poetry

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In Islamic arts: The new style
…a classic theme, that of ḥubb ʿudhrī (“ʿUdhrah love”)—the lover would rather die than achieve union with his beloved—was expounded by the Ẓāhirī theologian Ibn Dāʾūd (died 910) in his poetic anthology Kitāb al-zahrah (The Book of the Flower). This theme was central to the ghazal poetry of the following…
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