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Abu Nuwas (أبو نواس, Abū Nuwās) [a] (756-8 – c. 814) was a classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative of the modern (muhdath) poetry that developed during the first years of the Abbasid Caliphate.
One such cycle of Arabic tales centres around a small group of historical figures from ninth-century Baghdad, including the caliph Harun al-Rashid (died 809), his vizier Jafar al-Barmaki (d. 803) and the licentious poet Abu Nuwas (d. c. 813). Another cluster is a body of stories from late medieval Cairo in which are mentioned persons and places ...
Abu al-Aswad and His Slave-girl: Abu Nuwas (Arabic: أبو نواس) a renowned, hedonistic poet at the court of Harun al-Rashid, the Caliph. several tales Abu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف) a famous legal scholar and judge, during the reign of Harun al-Rashid. Abu Yusuf was also one of the founders of the Hanafi school of Islamic law.
Abu Nuwas (747-815) wrote homoerotic poetry. Another poet who sang of the illicit pleasures of wine and ephebes was Abū Nuwās al-Hasan Ibn Hāni' al-Hakamī, better known simply as Abu Nuwas (Ahvaz, Iran, 747 - Baghdad, 815). The homoerotic love he celebrated is similar to that described in ancient Greece: the adult poet assumes an active ...
Dhu Nuwas' family is not very well known. There is debate on who his father is; the earlier Arab scholars and the Jewish Encyclopedia believed that Dhu Nuwas was the son of the earlier Himyarite king Abu Karib. [20] [21] However, Ibn al-Kalbi disagreed and stated that he was the son of Sharhabil Yakkuf, hence making him the great-grandson of ...
Abu Nuwas is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 116 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 17.4°N, 20.4°W. It is located at 17.4°N, 20.4°W. It is named after the Arab poet Abu Nuwas , and its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. [ 1 ]
He also takes the job much more seriously as well and makes beneficial adjustments to the taxes and the wages of his army, with the Grand Vizier and Commander of the army Abou Nouz (a play on Abu Nuwas, a courtier of Harun's successor Al-Amin) noting that Amin has gotten more done in a day, than the real Sultan has in years. Overhearing this ...
Not only did Abu Nuwas spoof the traditional poetic form of the qasida and write many poems in praise of wine, his main occupation was the writing of ever more ribald ghazal many of them openly homosexual. [citation needed] While Nuwas produced risqué but beautiful poems, many of which pushed to the limit what was acceptable under Islam ...