Juan BRANDO

Original title: Semblanza de la poesía árabe

Published in The Medieval Aesthetics

Keywords: Al-Andalus, Arabism, Islamic Law, Middle Ages, Poetry.

We propose a brief approach to the Arabic Poetry of the later Middle Ages with a Reading key centered on the metaphors alluding to wine, wáter, tears, dew and flowers. Prohibition and desire, postponenment and melancholy by the absence of the beloved or exile, the pains drowned in wine, are the ways by which poetry becomes a consideration of trascendence and primordial unity.