Talk:Abu Nuwas

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"He is generally regarded as one of the greatest...".

See: [| Avoid peacock terms policy]

Reply: When the Ministry of Culture in his country burns 6000 of his books, one can assume that there are a minority who do not regard him as as 'one of the greatest'. The statement is therefore one of fact.

Burned 6,000 of his books? There's a major road alongside the Tigris named after him! I doubt that there's a William Shakespeare Drive along the Hudson.

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I for one would like some sort of source for the statement about "the Ministry of Culture in his country." First, just which country was that? Iraq? Egypt? Second, when did this alleged burning take place? Third, who counted the 6,000 copies? Fourth, you can hardly prove that Abu Nuwas is considered one of the greatest Arab poets by claiming that modern Arabs are burning his books.

There's an Abu Nuwas hotel in Tunis, as well. This is a rather interesting topic: like the museum devoted to Michelangelo's David, there seems to be some time when people stop caring about the sexuality of a great artist. Of course, it may be nothing more than people being ignorant of the great artist's sexuality.

In any case, the only information I have says that the Egyptians published a bowdlerized version of the Diwan in the early 20th century -- just as John Benson published a bowdlerized version of Shakespeare's sonnets in the 17th century. JaafarAbuTarab 16:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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Here are the sources from the main Wikipedia article on homosexuality

Al-Hayat, January 13, 2001 Middle East Report, 219 Summer 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.97.41 (talk) 01:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Did anyone notice that the man in the picture looks a lot like Snoop Dogg? Stirs up the belief in reincarnation, doen't it?

Abu Nawas is arab, his mother was probably persian but his father was an arab. Please use sources other then ones sponsored and censored by the Iranian government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.89.62.36 (talk) 07:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

HELP US! WE WON'T PAY YOU! WE WON'T RESPECT YOU! JUST DO AS YOU ARE TOLD!

I could probably help to clean up this page, but I'm damned if I'll do it for free.

Jaafar Abu Tarab

1001 Nights

Could someone more familiar with the 1001 Nights write up a proper section about Abu Nuwas as a literary character? Almafeta (talk) 17:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

gay!!

How do you know that Abu Nawas was gay what refrence?

If you do not give me a reference during these days I will delete THIS category of gays

--Muhib mansour (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, gay!!

How do we know that Abu Nuwas was gay ??? Perhaps because through historical researches and because he wrote explicit gay poetry ?!! 83.112.222.22 (talk) 23:44, 5 June 2016 (UTC) Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry by Philip Kennedy, edited in 2012 : "Abu Nuwas did express preference for men unambiguously in a number of poems in which he vowed never again to risk the dangers of the "sea", i.e. women, when he could ride and travel by "land", scilicet upon the backs of men. He composed one such poem on the occasion of his marriage. We know little about this betrothal, which appears to have forced upon him ; he flet little satisfaction at the union however, effectively lampooning his wife on the very evening of their wedding. Young adolescent boys became his sexual preference..."83.112.222.22 (talk) 23:56, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

notes, references and notes, references

I plan to come back and cleanup those sections. feel free to attack it yourself if you like. otherwise I will be back by in a day or two. —¿philoserf? (talk) 02:54, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Notes on my edits

I worked on this AFI. Some points that I was not sure about or would appreciate some feedback/correction about are:

• referring to Abu Nuwas. It's not entirely clear to me how to deal with Arabic names in an encyclopedia. Using "Nuwas" seemed to be the best way to go, but if this is wrong, feel free to correct this.
• the new section headings I added. I tried to organize the material in a more flowing way, but there might be a better or more standardized way of doing this, especially what to name the headings of the new subsections.
• mention of plagiarism. I referred to Ibn Ammar's work as a "critique" and his claim as "alleged plagiarism," but I don't really know if this is accurate. - Jkgree (talk) 15:29, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hatnote

@Aza24: to answer your question, "there are hundreds of craters named after people, are you going to put every single one on hundreds of pages as a useless hat note?" No, only on pages that do not link to a disambiguation page and where the crater is notable and has a standalone article with an identical name. This comes from Wikipedia:Hatnote§4 in the lead as well as the subsection WP:SIMILAR. We link to disambiguated titles from the primary topic instead of leaving people wondering if the other article exists and guessing what its disambiguated title is.

Pinging @Wikaviani who reverted your removal under identical conditions at Avicenna. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:56, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Finnusertop, if you want to re-add it, I don't have any real objection given that you at least have reasoning and policy/guidelines behind your decision. But keep in mind that the crater receives a single view each day so I would suspect that quite literally no one goes to the Abu Nuwas page looking for it. Aza24 (talk) 20:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Done. Yeah, hatnotes are not a popularity contest and they don't say anything about the relative importance of two topics other than that one is WP:PRIMARY. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:54, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Islamic Art

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