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Abu Nuwas (747 - 815)
Arab poet of the Abbasid period, also known as Abu Nu'as and Abu Nuwaz. His full name was Abu Nuwas Al-hasan Ibn Hani' Al-hakami, and he was born in Ahvaz, Iran, to an Arab father and a Persian mother. He studied theology and grammar in Basra under Walibah ibn al-Hubab and in al-Kufah under Khalaf al-Ahmar. Tradition holds he also lived for a year among the Bedouins to study their linguistics. Abu Nuwas settled in Baghdad and soon became renowned for his witty and humorous poetry, which dealt not with the traditional desert themes, but with urban life and the joys of wine and loving boys. Political upheavals in Baghdad forced him to flee to Egypt for a time, but he later returned to the city and enjoyed the patronage and favor of the citizens and the caliphs until his death.
Abu Nuwas is considered one of the greats of classic Arab literature, and in his style and subject matter is comparable to the Greek Anacreon. He appears as a character in one of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights tales.
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