Abu Nuwas

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week on Queer as Fact, we're talking about the 8th-century Arabic poet Abu Nuwas. Join us to hear about wine poetry, sexuality in the Abbasid caliphate, and fun facts about cheetahs. Transcript available here Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image: sketch of Abu Nuwas drawn by Khalil Gibran in 1916]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:05.2	I'm Alice.
0:06.0	I'm Irene.
0:06.8	And I'm Jason.
0:07.7	And today we're talking about the 8th century poet Abu Noas.
0:14.7	I'd like to acknowledge the Wondri Woyurang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional
0:22.9	owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay my respects to their elders
0:27.0	past and present.
0:28.3	They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:32.3	We have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:35.0	This episode will include discussions of historical and modern racism and queer phobia,
0:39.9	discussions of sex, sexual relationships between adults and minors, and sexual assault,
0:45.2	there'll also be mentions of slavery, some swearing in quotes,
0:49.3	quite a bit of discussion of alcohol, mentions of imprisonment, execution, and death by poisoning,
0:55.4	and brief mentions of the death of a dog and of civil war. If any of that sounds like something you don't want to
1:00.0	listen to, feel free to skip this episode and check out the rest of our content. Before we get
1:04.1	into Abinoros's life, let's talk a bit about our sources. Abinus lived in the 8th and 9th centuries in what is modern day Iran and
1:12.9	Iraq. His work and anecdotes about his life come down to us in three main anthologies,
1:19.4	all compiled a century or so after his death. There are also various mentions of him in other
1:24.2	sources, including 1,001 nights. Oh, really? Yes, really.
1:28.1	Are there other real people in 1,0001 nights?
1:30.5	Yeah.
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