A Hispano-Arabic verse form underlay European courtly love poetry

Evidence

Muneeza Shamsie notes how “all good literature is trans-geographical,” going on to show how the spread of Islam created new literary genres as preexisting forms met and melded. She cites the example, given by Maria Rosa Menocal, of how the vernacular Arabic poetic form muwashshaha arose from Hispano-Arabic roots and spread to influence Provençal troubadour poetry and thereby the entire European medieval tradition of courtly love poetry (Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English [Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2017], 2–3). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 544

Categorization

• CANDY: Courtly love poetry descends from an Arabic-Andalusian form is a genuinely tweetable, counterintuitive bite for almost anyone.
• XREF: Directly parallels the cross-cultural exchange argument you want for situating Hamid and Naqvi as trans-geographical rather than ‘national’ writers.