Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 “Dangling Locks and Babel Eyes” – A Biographical Sketch of Abu Nuwas (c. 757–814)

2 “Love, Wine, Sodomy ... and the Lash” – The Lyric Poetry of Abu Nuwas

3 “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” – On Panegyric and Satire

4 Some Hunting Poems and a Game of Polo

5 “Poetry for Mortals and the Dead” – On the Ascetic Poem and the Elegy

An Afterword – “Walk the Even Path with Me ...”

Bibliography

Index

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"Philip has written a very good book on the great (in my view) greatest Arabic poet, Abu Nuwas... The literary analysis is generally excellent, balanced and erudite." Geert Jan van Gelder - Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University "Philip has written a very good book on the great (in my view) greatest Arabic poet, Abu Nuwas... The literary analysis is generally excellent, balanced and erudite." Geert Jan van Gelder - Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University

About the Author

Philip Kennedy is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University.

Reviews

Geert Jan van Gelder - Laudian Professor of Arabic, Oxford University"Philip has written a very good book on the great (in my view) greatest Arabic poet, Abu Nuwas... The literary analysis is generally excellent, balanced and erudite."