ИСТИНА

Among the vast amount of adab treatises in Medieval Arab litterature that aimed at bringing up an ideal human being there were didactic works of specialized carachter, particularly on adab of the revelry. In such treatises along with curious facts on wine-drinking-culture and codes of behaviour during the party, a huge material from Wine poetry (khamriyyāt) can be found. The folowing paper will focus on the works of Ibn al-Mu‘tazz (861–908), Kushājim (d. in 971) and Shams ad-Dīn an-Nawājī (1385–1454) examining and comparing their composition and content.