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List Of Arabic Language Poets
List of Arabic language poets, most of whom were or are Arabs and who wrote in the Arabic language. Each year links to the corresponding "earin poetry" article. The alphabetical order is by first names. Alphabetical list __NOTOC__ A *Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964) *Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750–809) (عباس بن الأحنف) * Abdallah Zrika (1953) * Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi (b. 1938) * Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi (d. 1230) * Abd Al-Rahman Shokry (1886–1958) * Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati (1926–1999) * Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (d. 1298) * Abdel Latif Moubarak (b. 1964) *Abdel Mohsin Musellem (b.1958) *Abderrahman El Majdoub (d. 1568) * Abdul Rahman Yusuf (b. 1970) * Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908) * Abo Al Qassim Al Shabbi * Abu 'Afak (7th Century) *Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897–967) *Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (1212-1269) *Abu Nuwas (750–813) *Abu Tammam (''c.'' 805–845) *Abu-l-'Atahiya (748–828) *Ahmad al-Tifashi (d. 1253) *Ahmed Shawqi (1868–1932) *al-Akhtal (''c.'' 640–710) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the western Indian Ocean islands (including the Comoros). An Arab diaspora is also present around the world in significant numbers, most notably in the Americas, Western Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, and Iran. In modern usage, the term "Arab" tends to refer to those who both carry that ethnic identity and speak Arabic as their native language. This contrasts with the narrower traditional definition, which refers to the descendants of the tribes of Arabia. The religion of Islam was developed in Arabia, and Classical Arabic serves as the language of Islamic literature. 93 percent of Arabs are Muslims (the remainder consisted mostly of Arab Christians), while Arab Muslims are only 20 percent of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdel Mohsin Musellem
Abdel Mohsin Musellem Abdul Mohsin Bin Halit Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad Muslim Al-Mahmadi Al-Harbi, is a Saudi poet and writer, and one of the literary elite in the Kingdom. He was born in Medina in the year 1958. He was raised by his father, the writer Sheikh Helit Muslim, who is one of the nobles in Medina, and a previous imam of the Quba Mosque. Abdel Mohsin finished his university studies by obtaining a bachelor's degree in public administration from a university in the United States. When he returned to Saudi Arabia in the eighties, he settled in Jeddah to work in Saudi Gazette newspaper which was issued in English. Abdel Mohsin is well known for his outspokenness and his poetry is noted for the direct expression of sentiment on current affairs. He was arrested by the Saudi authorities because of his famous poem "Spoilers On Earth" which was published on the last page of the Saudi newspaper Al-Medina on Sunday, 26 Dhul-Hijjah 1422 AH. His poems His famous poems: * Lad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Shawqi
Ahmed Shawqi (also written Chawki; ar, أحمد شوقي, , ; ; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets ( ar, أمير الشعراء ''Amīr al-Shu‘arā’''), was an Arabic poet laureate, to the Arabic literary tradition. Life Raised in a wealthy family of mixed Circassian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Greek roots, his family was prominent and well-connected with the court of the Khedive of Egypt. Upon graduating from high school, he attended law school, obtaining a degree in translation. Shawqi was then offered a job in the court of the Khedive Abbas II, who was the khedive of Egypt, which he immediately accepted. After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years. While in France, he was heavily influenced by the works of French playwrights, most notably Molière and Racine. He returned to Egypt in 1894, and remained a prominent member of Arab literary culture un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ahmad Al-Tifashi
Ahmad al-Tifashi whose full name is Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yusuf al-Ḳaysi al-Tifachi (), born in Tifash, a village near Gafsa in Tunisia (1184 – died 1253 in Cairo) was an Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist, best known for his work ''A Promenade of the Hearts'' ().Ahmad al-Tifachi, ''Les Délices des cœurs ou ce que l'on ne trouve en aucun livre'', traduction de René R. Khawam, éd. Phébus, Paris, 1981, pp. 15-16. "Il naquit donc à Tifâche de Gafsa en 1184" Biography Little is known of al-Tifashi's life. He appears to have lived mostly in Tunis, Cairo, and Damascus, although he may even have been nomadic. He was highly educated and cultured. He compiled ''A Promenade of the Hearts'', a 12-chapter anthology of Arabic poetry and jokes about erotic and sexual practices, that featured both heterosexual and homoerotic entries with a bias towards the latter. A French translation by René R. Khawam, based on an Arabic copy held in Paris, was published as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu-l-'Atahiya
Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya ( ar, أبو العتاهية; 748–828), full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi (), was among the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific ''muwallad'' poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, whom he met. He renounced poetry for a time on religious grounds. Life Abū l-ʻAtāhiyya was born in Ayn al-Tamr in the Iraqi desert, near al-Anbar. There are two sayings in his lineage the first is that he is from the Anazzah tribe,Omar Farouk Al-Tabbaa Diwan Abu al-Atahiya, p.6 and the other is that His family were ''mawali'' of the tribe of ʻAnaza. His youth was spent in Kufa, where he was engaged for some time in selling pottery. During the time when he took the occupation of selling pottery, he saw the assembly of poets in a competition and he participated in it. He composed eulogia to the governor of Tabaristan, emir Umar Ibn al-Alā (783-4/ 167AH). and with a growing reputation, he was drawn to Baghdad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Tammam
Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī (; ca. 796/807 - 845), better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām (), was an Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents. He is best known in literature by his 9th-century compilation of early poems known as the ''Hamasah'', considered one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic literature ever assembled. Hamasah contained 10 books of poems, with 884 poems in total. Biography Abu Tammam was born in Syria near Damascus in a small town called Jasim (in modern-day Syria), north-east of the Sea of Tiberias and close to Daraa. He was the son of a Christian named Thādhūs (Taddeo or Theodosius) who sold wine in Damascus. His early life is not well known. It is believed that Abu Tammam himself converted to Islam, changing his father's name to Aws and forged a genealogy linking him to the Arab tribe of T̩ayy. According to al-Najashi, Abu Tammam was a Twelver Shia Muslim as evident by some of his poems. He was also a contemporary of the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Nuwas
Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī (), known as Abū Nuwās al-Salamī () or just Abū Nuwās Garzanti ( ''Abū Nuwās''); 756814) was a classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative of the modern (''muhdath'') poetry that developed during the first years of Abbasid Caliphate. He also entered the folkloric tradition, appearing several times in '' One Thousand and One Nights''. Early life Abu Nuwas was born in the province of Ahvaz (modern Khuzestan Province) of the Abbasid Caliphate, either in the city of Ahvaz or one of its adjacent districts. His date of birth is uncertain, he was born sometime between 756 and 758. His father was Hani, a Syrian or Persian who had served in the army of the last Umayyad caliph Marwan II (). His mother was a Persian named Gulban, whom Hani had met whilst serving in the police force of Ahvaz. When Abu Nuwas was 10 years old, his father died. In his ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Al-Hasan Al-Shushtari
Abu-al-Hasan Ali ben Abdallah al-Nuymari as-Shushtari ( ar, ابو الحسن الششتري) or Al-Sustari (1212 in Exfiliana, near Guadix – 1269 in Damietta) was an Andalusian-Arab Sufi Sheikh, philosopher, jurist, and poet. He is best known by posterity for his poetry, which was designed to be sung in songs employing simple monorhymes to praise God with everyday musical idiom, which won wide recognition beyond the hundreds of disciples in his own Shushtariyya brotherhood.Page 5 "Shushtari's popular songs won him wide recognition, recognition that went far beyond the hundreds of disciples who formed the Sufi brotherhood known as the Shushtariyya (itself a branch of Ibn Sab'in's Sab'iniyya), an order eventually absorbed into the Shadhiliyya." Page 19 "Yet Ibn al-Khatib speaks of no rupture between the disciple and his master, instead claiming that Shushtari took over ... Furthermore, in both the I hat a and Rawdat al-tacrif, Ibn al-Khatib reproduces the complete text of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isfahani
Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī ( ar, أبو الفرج الأصفهاني), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaytham al-Umawī al-Iṣfahānī) (284–356 AH / 897-967 CE) was a litterateur, genealogist, poet, musicologist, scribe, and boon companion in the tenth century. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin and mainly based in Baghdad. He is best known as the author of ''Kitab al-Aghani'' ("The Book of Songs"), which includes information about the earliest attested periods of Arabic music (from the seventh to the ninth centuries) and the lives of poets and musicians from the pre-Islamic period to al-Isfahani's time. Given his contribution to the documentation of the history of Arabic music, al-Isfahani is characterised by Sawa as "a true prophet of modern ethnomusicology". Dates The commonly accepted dates of al-Isfahani's birth and death are 284 AH/897–8 CE and 356/967, based on the dates given by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu 'Afak
Abu 'Afak (Arabic: أبو عفك, died c. 624) was a Jewish poet who lived in the Hijaz region (today Saudi Arabia). Abu 'Afak did not convert to Islam and was vocal about his opposition to Muhammad. He became a significant political enemy of Muhammad. As an elderly man, Abu 'Afak Arwan wrote a politically charged poem against Muhammad and his followers that is preserved in the Sira. Muhammad then allegedly called for Abu 'Afak's death, and Salim ibn Umayr killed him. The affair was recorded by Ibn Ishaq in "''Sirat Rasul Allah''" ( The Life of the Prophet of God), the oldest biography of Muhammad. Sources Ibn Ishaq's account The following is an excerpt from Alfred Guillaume's translation of Ibn Ishaq's prophetic biography, chapter "Salim b. Umayr's expedition to kill Abu Afak".Abu Afak was one of the B. Amr b. Auf of the B. Ubayda clan. He showed his disaffection when the apostle uhammadkilled al-Harith b. Suwayd b. Samit and said: ::Long have I lived but never have I seen : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abo Al Qassim Al Shabbi
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi ( ar, أبو القاسم الشابي, ; 24 February 1909 – 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, ''Humat al-Hima'' (''Defenders of the Homeland''), which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii. Life Echebbi was born in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 24 February 1909, the son of a judge. He obtained his ''attatoui'' diploma (the equivalent of the ''baccalauréat'') in 1928. In 1930, he obtained a law diploma from the University of Ez-Zitouna. The same year, he married and subsequently had two sons, Mohamed Sadok, who became a colonel in the Tunisian army, and Jelal, who later became an engineer. He was very interested in modern literature in particular, and translated romantic literature, as well as old Arab literature. His poetic talent manifested itself at an early age and this poetry covered numerous topics, from the description of nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
