Jokha Alharthi
Biographic Data
| ID | 9714512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jokha Alharthi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jokha |
| FAMILY NAME | Alharthi |
| SIGNATURE | ALHARTHI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Historical Representation and Feminist Critique in Novels by Women of the Arabian Gulf
In recent decades, historical representation has emerged as a prominent narrative strategy in novels authored by women in the Arabian Gulf. This article examines how these women engage with history not as a nostalgic return to the past, but as a critical and feminist mode of interrogating gendered exclusions, social hierarchies, and cultural memory. It analyzes the motivations underlying this historical turn and the narrative forms through which …
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
The evolution of the love story in classical Arabic literature
Narratives of tragic love featuring classical Arab poets are found in many literary sources, such as al-Shiʿr wa-al-shuʿarāʾ, Kitāb al-Aghānī and Maṣāriʿ al-ʿushshāq. There are striking similarities between these narratives. The love story frequently takes the form of a tragedy in which the lover is separated from his beloved and then pines for her until he dies. The repetition of this pattern suggests that most of these stories imitate a single …
The Body in Arabic Love Poetry
This book radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age. It challenges stereotypical ideas about the absence of the body in ʿUdhri love poetry. Investigating the ʿUdhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-Aghani, the book contributes to literary studies on the representations of the body. It also includes close readings of…
Body in Arabic Love Poetry
Present and Absent Bodies of the Beloved
The presence and absence of the beloved's physical form is the primary subject of discussion in this chapter. It argues that the bodily presence in ‘udhri poetry does not always take the form of a physical body — sometimes it appears through symbolic channels, where the symbolising of the body appears alongside its physical depiction. The chapter examines such themes as gestures, speech, phantoms, the beloved’s house, and her presence through nat…
Reconstructing the Past
This chapter argues that, no matter whether the narratives claim or deny that physical contact took place in the relationships between lovers, the result is still the same. The body lies at the heart of the ‘udhri tradition. The lack of physical consummation, or indeed of physicality itself, serves only to inflame desire, since it only draws more attention to that which is being denied. Hence, this shows us the privileged position of the body by …
Conclusion
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The Body in Arabic Love Poetry
This book radically re-interprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age. It challenges stereotypical ideas about the absence of the body in ʿUdhri love poetry. Investigating the ʿUdhri tradition through close readings of the classical 10th-century Arabic sources including anthologies such as the Kitab al-Aghani, the book contributes to literary studies on the representations of the body. It also includes close readings of…
Body in Arabic Love Poetry
Present and Absent Bodies of the Beloved
The presence and absence of the beloved's physical form is the primary subject of discussion in this chapter. It argues that the bodily presence in ‘udhri poetry does not always take the form of a physical body — sometimes it appears through symbolic channels, where the symbolising of the body appears alongside its physical depiction. The chapter examines such themes as gestures, speech, phantoms, the beloved’s house, and her presence through nat…
Reconstructing the Past
This chapter argues that, no matter whether the narratives claim or deny that physical contact took place in the relationships between lovers, the result is still the same. The body lies at the heart of the ‘udhri tradition. The lack of physical consummation, or indeed of physicality itself, serves only to inflame desire, since it only draws more attention to that which is being denied. Hence, this shows us the privileged position of the body by …
Conclusion
and Keywords to be supplied.
Historical Representation and Feminist Critique in Novels by Women of the Arabian Gulf
In recent decades, historical representation has emerged as a prominent narrative strategy in novels authored by women in the Arabian Gulf. This article examines how these women engage with history not as a nostalgic return to the past, but as a critical and feminist mode of interrogating gendered exclusions, social hierarchies, and cultural memory. It analyzes the motivations underlying this historical turn and the narrative forms through which …
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
The evolution of the love story in classical Arabic literature
Narratives of tragic love featuring classical Arab poets are found in many literary sources, such as al-Shiʿr wa-al-shuʿarāʾ, Kitāb al-Aghānī and Maṣāriʿ al-ʿushshāq. There are striking similarities between these narratives. The love story frequently takes the form of a tragedy in which the lover is separated from his beloved and then pines for her until he dies. The repetition of this pattern suggests that most of these stories imitate a single …
Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Arabic literature (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Arabic (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Families in Therapy and Culture (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works)