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The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry - Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry - Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs
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The classical period of Arab civilization produced the most
extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world
literature, In this book, the author traces the history of
classical Arabic wine poetry from its origins in sixth century
Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century.
The focus is on the greatest and perhaps most likeable of Arabic
poets, Abu Nuwas. Although wine poetry is only one of the many
genres for which he is known, it is the one that has ensured his
fame, and the one on which this book concentrates. The wine songs
of the poet are analysed and their connections with poetics,
ethics, and religion are explored. The author also puts Abu Nuwas
in perspective by comparing him with his most important
predecessors and contemporaries and by discussing his interaction
with other poetic genres such as amatory, invective, ascetic, or
gnomic verse.
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