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Poems Of Wine & Revelry

Poems Of Wine & Revelry

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AnthropologyFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1138994995
ISBN13: 9781138994997
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.32 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756-c.815), the 'bad boy' of Abbasid poetry. In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate. Yet there is also a modern and up-to-date feel about his poetry that makes it ideal for presentation to an English-speaking readership, some twelve centuries after his death.

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