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Poems of lost love in the desert are also known as Al Ghazal Al Udhri or Udhrite Ghazal, after the tribe of Banu Udhrah who were known for their chaste and self-effacing love for the unattainable woman. This special genre emerged in the Umayyad period (7th to 8th centuries CE) and includes the timeless real-life love stories of Majnoun Layla, Qays and his Lubna, Jamil and his Buthayna and Kuthaiyr, the lover of Azza and many more. “It was a kind of an honourable love, where it was not about the physical, but about the soul. Both the male and female poets spoke from their hearts,” the historian says.
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There are the flirtations of the mischievous 7th-century Umar ibn Abi Rabih who, posing as a hopeless lover, would wait for female pilgrims coming to Mecca, and then pursue them with his poetry.