Love Poetry of Ḥassāni Women: Lyrics of three Old Songs

Abstract

Ḥassāni popular poetry includes among its themes one dedicated to women’s love poetry composed by non-professional poetess intended to be sang among friends. The present article deals with this type of women’s poetry called ət-təbṛāʿ. Some professional singers began to sing some sets of these poems as songs that were recorded in the last century. A number of these recordings have survived to reach us, but have never been edited or studied. The body of this article consists of a phonetic transcription of the lyrics of three songs and the translation of the texts with some notes explaining its cultural and ethno-linguistic aspects.