despite the great fame the well-known abbasid poet –abu nuwas- enjoys, his real character is covered in a misty cloud. one of the vague aspects of his character is his religious and political tendency in a way that his poems carry the features of both atheism and belief in god and the judgment day. from a political perspective, he is an advocate of abbasid government, and at the same time a shi...

one of the themes of the poem has a significant presence in almost all periods in the history of arabic literature is wine poem. during the fourth and fifth centuries a.d, the arabic language which had become the official language of the land of khorasan, wine composition poem among the poets of this land had significantly grown. wine poets in their tremens had described many details such as th...