Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id Al-Habboubi ( ar, السيد محمد سعيد الحبوبي) (1849- 1915) was an Iraqi
Poet,
Faqīh, and a
merchant
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, born in
Najaf to a wealthy family.
Life and career
He studied
Faqih and Arabic language in
Hawza of the
Najaf.
Later, he worked in trade, due to his business he had to move often between
Najaf and
Najad
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. He described his travels and expatriation in his poems. Habboubi quit poetry when he reached forty, and spent rest of his life teaching
Fiqh in
Hawza of the
Najaf.
At breakout of the
World War I, Al-Habboubi led volunteer groups in the
Ottoman Empire against British invading forces, but he died suddenly during the
Siege of Kut in 1915.
He was buried in
Imam Ali Mosque in
Najaf city.
A sculpture was erected to Habboubi in the central square of
Nasiriyah
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city.
Books
*collection of poems (4 editions).
See also
*
Iraqi art
*
List of Iraqi artists
*
Al-Habboubi Square
References
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19th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire
People from Najaf
1849 births
1915 deaths
Iraqi Shia clerics
19th-century poets of Ottoman Iraq
Male poets from the Ottoman Empire
19th-century businesspeople from the Ottoman Empire
20th-century Iraqi poets
Pupils of Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani