HISTORY 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Abbasid Caliphate, Ghazal, Khawarij
31 Oct 2018
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Anyone who wanted to be fashionable (bureaucrats, landowners, merchants) Should be elegant, clever, well educated in religion, sciences, history, and literature. Able to recite witty or touching lines of poetry on all occasions. Believed life must be cultivated and refined. Around the caliph in a dazzling court life. Set artistic fashions first in damascus then baghdad. Chanted or sung to specific tunes (at parties) Famous abbasid poet is known for wine poetry and sinning. He was opposed to the rules of islam (got in the way of fun) Did believe in the day of judgment, hoped that god would skip over his sins. A famous and well-loved genre of poetry. Some muslims drank it (not the pious) despite the quranic prohibition. Examples: the caliph, his wife, a governor. The patron then rewards poet financially for efforts. Hunting parties another way to have fun. Groups went out to desert, forest, hills. Has bbqs at night over a campfire, drank.
