Historically Redacted: Manifesting Queer Poets

Abu Nuwas

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[O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early]O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early,

The Transgressive Poetry of Abu Nuwas If apple is but wine, solidified, And wine is apple, only liquefied, You’ll find, if drinking is not temporised, Substantial joy and pleasure, actualised! Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn…

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أبو نواس Abu Nuwas on the Pleasure and Remorse of Wine لا تَبْكِ ليلى ، ولا تطْرَبْ إلى هندِ I first discovered Abu Nuwas (756–814) in a (somewhat prude) monograph entitled ‘Mujun: Libertinism in Medieval Arabic Poetry’ (mujan meanin…

The Arab poet who worshipped wineA new book of translations is set to bring a classical Arabic poet into the Western imagination – and change perceptions of the Middle East with it.

The Wine Song In Classic Arabic Poetry

Abu Nuwas and the Literay Tradition. By Philip F. Kennedy

Abu Nuwas: Poet of Wine, Desire, the Hunt, and the Abbasid EmpireAbu Nuwas (Abū Nuwās) (756–758 – 813–815 ce) was a leading Arabic poet who transformed Arabic poetry about wine, love, the obscene, and hunting in ways that influenced poetry from the Iberian Peninsu...

Abu NuwasBorn sometime in the mid-eighth century, the Arabian poet Abu Nuwas—“He of the Dangling Locks”—is most famous for his poems in praise of wine, although he also extolled the pleasures of love, hunting,

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What can an eighth-century Islamic poet tell us about queer desire? By Hugh Ryan

The Legend of Abu Nuwas – Homo-eroticism and Arabic poetryIn an Abrahamanic world where eroticism is a sin, homo-eroticism is something that is beyond the very realms of sinning. But there was a Muslim poet, 1200 years ago, who immortalized homo-eroticism…

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