Ábû Nuwâs

Arab Ábû Nuwâs ''' أبونواسالحسنبنهانئالحكمي ''' = '' ábuw nuwaās el-ḥasan bn haāniý el-ḥakamiyy '', born between 747 and 762 with Ahvaz (Iran) and deceased towards 815 with Baghdad (current Iraq), is a Poète arabo - Persan.

Its name, which decides in Arabic nuwaːs, was variously transcribed in French according to the times and the authors: Abou-Navas, Abou-Naovas (Herbelot, 1697), Abou-Noavas (Weiss, 1846), Abinaouas (Gide, 1899), Abou Nawas, Abou Nowas, Abû Nuûas, Abû-Nuwâs, Abū Nuwās, etc

Biography

Ábû Nuwâs was born from an Arab father and a mother Persian. From a Persan medium but arabized, it passes all its life to Baghdad. Its contacts with Patron S, the such viziers Barmécides, and its will have scandalous are worth to him the lightnings of the Caliph Haroun rear-Rachid.

Its privileged topics pour in a tendency hedonist with the mystical relents : love of the Wine, the boys and the Hunting, old Libertine but also distresses Mort and Vieillissement. Its critical spirit is turned in particular against the religious institutions. It is rocked by the rimées poetry preislamic Bedouin and songs invaluable and mannerists.

Regarded in its time as the largest classical Arabic poet, it is very popular today in the countries of language Arab.

Some texts

Better than girl boy
will it kill Me is worth?
Loves witch

They said of him

the Historian Al-Massoudi: “Its talent is so large that it would have so to speak closed the doors of bacchic poetry”.
the sociologist Ibn Khaldoun: “One of the principal Arab poets”
the polygraph Al-Jahiz: “I never saw anybody who knew the Arab lexicon best and expressed myself with more purity and of softness by avoiding any unpleasant matter”.

Others

A title of the album Mutatis-mutandis of the singer Juliette is called the intoxication of Abhu Nawas .

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