Aban ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid al-Lahiqi; satirical poem about
al ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abdallah, poetry in praise of
al-‘Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf
al-‘Abbas ibn Musa al-Hadi
Abbasid poetry
Abbasid society
Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan ibn Hani’ al-Hakami see Abu Nuwas
Abu al-‘Atahiya
Abu Hilal al-‘Askari
Abu al-Hindi
Abu Mihjan al-Thaqafi
Abu al-Najm al-‘Ijli
Abu Nuwas: background; character and temperament; death; education; posthumous status; sexuality
Abu Tammam
Abu ‘Ubayda Ma‘mar ibn al-Muthanna
‘Ad
‘Adi ibn Zayd
Ahwaz
al-Akhtal
‘Ala’ ibn al-Waddah
alchemy
‘Ali ibn Abi Talib
al-A‘ma al-Tutili
allusion
amatory prelude (nasib)
ambiguity
al-Amin, Caliph; and hunting; imprisonment of Abu Nuwas; lampoon of; poems written for
‘Amr al-Warraq
amrad
Ansari tribe
antithesis
Arabia, Northern and Southern tribes
Arabian Nights
Arabic poetry; traditions of love poetry; wine in
ascetic poetry
al-A’sha; Mu‘allaqa
Ashja‘ al-Sulami
al-Asma‘i
al-‘Attabi, Kulthum ibn ‘Amr
Ayyam al-‘Arab
badi‘
Badr al-Juhani al-Barra’
Baghdad; Abu Nuwas’ move to; caliphate court; poets in
Bakr ibn al-Mu‘tamir
Banawasi, Abu Nuwas known as
Banu ‘Udhra
Barmecide family; elegies for
Barsum
Bashshar ibn Burd
Basra
al-Batin Sa‘id ibn al-Walid
Bencheikh, J.
biblical references in poems
boys; Christian; poems about; sexual preference for
al-Buhturi, Abu ‘Ubayda al-Walid
Cairo
cheetahs, poems about
Christian boys
Christian scripture, knowledge of
Christians, treatment of in poems
contradiction, in poetry
cynegetic poems
Damascus
‘The Days’ (al-Ayyam)
debate literature
desert, in verse
Devil
al-Dhahabi
Di‘bil ibn ‘Ali
Dryden, John
Durra
Egypt; return from
elegies; for self
epitaph
erotic themes
eulogies
al-Fadl ibn Abi Sahl
al-Fadl ibn Rabi‘a; and imprisonment of Abu Nuwas; poem dedicated to
al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki
fakhr
fiqh (jurisprudence), understanding of
forbearance
frivolity, in love poetry
funerary laments
genealogy
generosity
ghazal (see also love poetry)
al-Ghazali
ghulamiyyat (transvestites)
hadith: knowledge of; teaching
Hafiz
al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf
Hakam
Hamori, A.
Hani’ ibn ‘Abd al-Awwal (father)
Harun al-Rashid, Caliph; elegy for; imprisonment of Abu Nuwas; poetry in praise of
Harut
Hasan of Basra
Hashim ibn Hudayj
Hassan ibn Thabit; ‘Hamziyya’
al-Haytham ibn ‘Adi, lampoon of
hedonism
heresy; imprisonment for
hija’ (see also satire)
Hims
Hira
homoerotic poems
homosexuality
hounds, elegy for
Humayd ibn Thawr
hunting poems
‘Husayn’, demon muse of Abu Nuwas
al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak
ibahi
Iblis see Devil
Ibn Butlan
Ibn al-Mu‘tazz
Ibn Nubata
Ibn Shuhayd, Epistle of Familiar Spirits
Ibn Zaydun
iltifat
imagining death
impotence, fear of
imprisonment
Imru’ al-Qays
‘Inan; relationship with
Ingrams, W.H.
irreverence
‘Isabadh
al-Isfahani
Islam; influence of, in love poetry
Isma‘il ibn Abi Sahl, lampoon of
Isma‘il ibn Sabih
Jabriyya
Ja‘far ibn Yahya
Jahiliyya
al-Jahiz; Book of Animals; Book of Misers
Janan; poems about
Jarada
Jarir
Jarrah ibn ‘Abdullah al-Hakami
Jesus
Jews, treatment of in verse
Jonah
Jonson, Ben
Judgment (day)
Jullaban (mother)
Ka‘b ibn Zuhayr
Karkh
Keats, John
Khalaf al-Ahmar, influence on Abu Nuwas
khamriyyat (see also wine poetry)
al-Khansa’
al-Khasib
Khurasan
Khuzistan
Kufa; dissolutes of
kunya
Labid ibn Rabi ‘a, Mu ‘allaqa
Lamiyyat al ‘Arab
letters
love poetry; idealized love; and lust; master-servant relationships in; of seduction and rape; two traditions of
lust
madih (see also panegyric poetry) x,
Majnun Layla
al-Ma’mun, Caliph
Manhuka (poem by Abu Nuwas)
al-Mankli, Muhammad ibn
al-Mansur, Abu Ja‘far, Caliph
marriage of Abu Nuwas
marthiya (see also elegies) x
Marvel, Andrew ix
Marwan II, Caliph
Masarjasaya monastery
‘Masjidites’
master-servant relationships, in love poetry
Mecca, pilgrimages to
metaphor
Mirbad
Modern poet, Abu Nuwas as
Monteil, V.
Montgomery, J.E.
mu‘allaqa
mu’annathat
al-Mubarrad
mudhakkarat
Muhammad the Prophet
muhdath
mujun
munazara
Muslim, Abu Nuwas a
Muslim ibn al-Walid
al-Mu‘tamid ibn ‘Abbad
al-Mutanabbi
al-Mutawakkil, caliph
Mu‘tazilism
Nabat
naqa’id
nasib (see also amatory prelude)
Al Nawbakht family; and death of Abu Nuwas
Nawruz
al-Nazzam, Ibrahim
onomatopoeia
oryx tableau
panegyric poetry; for al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abdallah; for al-Amin; for Harun al-Rashid
paradox
parallelism
paronomasia
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
patronage
patrons, poetry in praise of see panegyric poetry
Persian origins,
Persian vocabulary, use of
polo match, poem about
posthumous status of Abu Nuwas
pre-Islamic poetry; love poems
prison, poems written in,
Qadariyya
qasida
Qatrabbul
Qu’ran; knowledge of; use of vocabulary of
rahil
rajaz
Ramadan
al-Raqashi
al-Rashid see Harun al-Rashid
religious tolerance
remuneration
repentance
The Rescue of Hafs’s Pupil (poem by Abu Nuwas)
rhetoric and rhetorical devices
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of
Ronsard, Pierre de
Rowson, E.K.
al-Sabbah (grandfather)
Sa‘d ibn ‘Ashira
Salih, Tayeb, Season of Migration to the North
saluki hounds, poems about
Saqr ibn Malik
satanic poems
satire; on Aban; and al-Amin; of Barmecides; sexual; of singing girls
sea, imagery of feminine sexuality
seduction, love poems about
sexual lampoons
sexuality of Abu Nuwas
al-Shafi‘i
al-Shanfara al-Azdi
shatir
simplicity of language
singing girls, satire of
Skelton, John
Smith, R.
al-Suli
tahlil
tardiyya (see also hunting poems)
tawba (repentance)
Tayf al-Khayal
theology, knowledge of
time
transvestites
‘udhri
‘Umar ibn Abi Rabi‘a
Umayyad poetry
Umayyad society
urjuza
Wagner, M.
al-Wahhab ibn ‘Abd al-Majid al-Thaqafi
Waliba ibn al-Hubab; elegy for; tutor of Abu Nuwas
Walid ibn Yazid
wine; in Arabic poetry; in panegyrics
wine poetry; Baghdad and; Dialogue with a Jewish Taverner; and erotic themes; and repentance; and time
women, poems about
writing
Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Hadrami
Yusuf ibn Daya
Yusuf ibn Muhammad
Zakariya’ al-Qushari
zandaqa
Zanzibar
Zubayda
Zuhayr ibn Musayyab
zuhdiyya (see also ascetic poetry)
‘Zunbur’
zunnar