Abu Nuwas
8th-century classical Arabic poet · Writers · Lived 756 to 814 · aged 58
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Something wrong?His wine songs and homoerotic verse made him the shock poet of the early Abbasid court - and later, a trickster figure slipping through the pages of the Arabian Nights.
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, There are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield.
O Lord, even though I have committed many sins / I understand that Your forgiveness... is far greater!
He played with sacred formulae, such as the call to prayer: "Come to prayer!" is rendered, in one profane turn, "Come to sleep-together!
About this person
Born around 756 to mixed Arab and Persian parents, he studied in Basra and al-Kufah under poets Waliba ibn al-Hubab and Khalaf al-Ahmar, alongside Qur'an, Hadith, and grammar. He rose to favor at the courts of caliphs Harun ar-Rashid and al-Amin, where his Diwan - a collected volume exploring religion, pleasure, and homoeroticism - marked him as the foremost voice of the muhdath, the modern poetry breaking from classical forms. He died around 814, but the legend outran the man: he reappeared as a folkloric character in One Thousand and One Nights, his name now shorthand for wit and transgression.
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