Woman in Arabic poetry

'via Blog this'Woman’s charm is an everlasting source of poetic inspiration. With the unlimited variety

of its manifestations, it is a challenge to the pagan poet of the Arabian desert, as it is to the

author of refined mystical odes. The small collection of terms, belonging to the lexical stock

of erotic imagery, draws on exactly these two poles of the Arabic classical poetry.

Whenever there emerged a poet in an Arab tribe, other tribes

would come to congratulate, feasts would be prepared, the women

would join together playing on lutes as they do at weddings, and

old and young men would all rejoice at the good news.

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Poetry is the archive of the Arabs; in it their genealogies have

been preserved; through it we can learn the glorious deeds of the

past; with it we learn the Arabic language. It sheds clarity on the

darkest and strangest things found in the Book of God and in the

tradition of God’s apostle and that of His companions and succes-

sors.