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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 ...
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.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Arabic poetry (Arabic: ... Abu Nuwas, in the 9th century, once responded to an insult from Hashim bin Hudayj, a ...
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 ...
List of Arabic language poets, most of whom were or are Arabs and who wrote in the Arabic language. Each year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. Each year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article.
Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya (Arabic: أبو العتاهية; 748–828), full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi (أبو إسحاق إسماعيل بن القاسم بن سويد العنزي), [1] [2] [3] was one of the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific muwallad [n 1] poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, both of whom he met.
Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (Persian) Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (Bangladeshi) Abul Kalam Azad (Indian) Abu Nuwas (Arab Persian) Abu Tammam (Syrian Arab) Abu Zafar Obaidullah (Bangladeshi) Afsar Amed (Indian) Aga Shahid Ali (Kashmiri American) Ahmad Ibn Arabshah (Syrian Arab) Ahmed Ali (Pakistani) Ahmed Sofa (Bangladesh) Ahsan Habib (Bangladeshi ...
Arabic poetry reached its greatest height in the Abbasid era, especially before the loss of central authority and the rise of the Persianate dynasties. Writers like Abu Tammam and Abu Nuwas were closely connected to the caliphal court in Baghdad during the early 9th century, while others such as al-Mutanabbi received their patronage from ...