148 Pages
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Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Poems of Wine & Revelry: the khamr?yy?t of Abu Nuwas;
Biography
Jim Coleville
