Poems Of Wine & Revelry

By Jim Colville

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138994995
• ISBN13: 9781138994997
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"