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Abbasid literature
Abbasid poetic traditions in English
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Abu Nuwas
Arabic poetry translation
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classical Arabic verse
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Product details
- ISBN 9780710309570
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2005
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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.
