{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (9)] – Love and Death}[14th April 1991]

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‘New attitudes towards love, too, were being gradually developed in poetry. Eventually, what was to become a classic theme, that of hubb udrhi (“Udrah love”)* – the lover would die rather ** than achieve union with his beloved – was explained by the Zahiri theologian Ibn Daud (died 910[ce])*** in his poetics anthology Kitab az-zahrah (“Book of the Flower”). This theme was central to ghazal**** poetry of the following centuries. Although at first completely secular, it was later taken over as a major concept in mystical love poetry. (The first examples of this adoption, in Iraq and Egypt, took place in Ibn Daud’s lifetime.)

The wish to die on the path that leads to # the beloved became commonplace in Persian, Turkish and Urdu poetry; and most romances in these languages end tragically. Ibn Daud’s influence also spread to the Western Islamic world. A century after his death, the theologian Ibn Hazim (died 1064[ce]), drawing upon personal experiences, composed in Spain his famous work on “pure love” called Tawq al-hamamah (The Ring of the Dove). Its lucid prose, interspersed with poetry, has many times been translated into western languages.’

#*

*after the tribe Udrah, whose members “die when they love”.

[See last previous ts journal entry but one, [Redbook9:104][19910414:1104p]{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (7)]}[14th April 1991]]

**“rather than”???

– cf fn=# below

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***{2048U~A~896CE}

****[See [Redbook9:104][19910414:1104o]{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (6)]}[14th April 1991]]

#{↑} ie not necessarily ‘instead of’[,] here.

#*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 51

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