Poems Of Wine & Revelry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138994997)

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.

Author: Colville
ISBN-10: 1138994995
ISBN-13: 9781138994997
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2016
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.32d