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Authors: Khaled El-Rouayheb
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The Iraqi poet Hasan ibn ʿAbd al-Ba
qi
(d. 1745/6), who was reputed to be an aesthete and a wine-drinker, addressed a poem containing the following lines to the cousin of his patron, praising him while playfully suggesting that he did not have what it takes to become a poet:
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The Iraqi poet Hasan ibn ʿAbd al-Ba
qi(d. 1745/6), who was reputed to be an aesthete and a wine-drinker, addressed a poem containing the following lines to the cousin of his patron, praising him while playfully suggesting that he did not have what it takes to become a poet:You have not drunk wine, nor seized the day, nor loved passionately. Only the rake composes poetry who, when the times permit, sins.
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The number of prominent poets in the early Ottoman Arab East who were said to love beauty or featured in anecdotes involving pederastic attraction is striking. A list of the poets of whom this is true is almost identical to the list of the most prominent Egyptian, West Arabian, Syrian, and Iraqi poets of the period 1500-1800: Mamayah al-Ru
mi
, Ahmad al-ʿIna
ya
ti
, Darwi
sh al-T
a
lawi
, Isma
ʿi
l al-H
ija
zi
(sixteenth century); Abu
mi, Ahmad al-ʿInayati, Darwish al-Talawi, Ismaʿil al-Hijazi(sixteenth century); AbuOther books
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