Mustafa Jamal al-Din, (Arabic: مصطفى جمال الدين) was an Iraqi

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scholar, poet, and writer. He was born in Suq Al-Shuyukh and studied in

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. He is a Shi'ite faqih and has numerous works of literature, including a collection of poems and a graphic novel. He died in

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Lineage

He is related to

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's cousin

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

, through

Musa al-Mubarraqa Abū Jaʿfar Mūsā ibn Muḥammad al-Mubarraqaʿ (Arabic: أبو جعفر موسى بن محمد المبرقع) was the son of ninth Twelver Shia Imam Muhammad al-Jawad and the younger brother of tenth Imam Ali al-Hadi. He is known to be the an ...

. Jamal al-Din was born in a village in Suq Al-Shuyukh,

Nasiriyah Nasiriyah ( ar, ٱلنَّاصِرِيَّة; United States Board on Geographic Names, BGN: ''An Nāşirīyah''; also spelled ''Nassiriya'' or ''Nasiriya'') is a city in Iraq. It is on the lower Euphrates River, Euphrates, about south-southeas ...

province, southern Iraq.

Education

He studied in a

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in his hometown, then moved to Karmat Bani Saeed to continue primary school. He completed fourth grade then moved to

to study religion. He completed the first two levels of studying ''Muqad'dim'maat'' and ''Sotooh'' then moved to ''Bahath Kharij'' level. He then went on to attend ''halaqah'' of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei He was appointed teaching assistant at the faculty of jurisprudence in Najaf for ranking first in his class in 1962. In 1972 he received a master's degree from the

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. He receivedmaster’s degree. In 1972, he was appointed professor at the faculty of arts of the

and became known in Iraq and the Arab world. He later received a PhD in Arabic in 1979.

Works

His works include: * ''Analogy: Truth and Justification -'' “Master’s thesis” (original: Qiyas: ḥaqyqth wā ḥuǧyth) * ''Juristic Discretion: Truth and Meaning'' (original: Istihsan: ḥaqyqth wā mʿnāh) * ''The Grammar Research of the Fundamentalists'' - “PhD thesis” (original: ālbḥṯ ālnḥwy ʿnd ālōṣwlyyn) * ''Rhythm in Arabic Poetry: Verse to'' Foot (original: al-Īqāʻ fī al-shiʻr al-ʻArabī min al-bayt ilá al-tafʻīlah) * “Baghdad” (poem) * Arabs of the Marshlands Predicament and Arab Silence (original: Miḥnat al-ahwār wa-al-ṣamt al-ʻArabī) He also has several poetry collections, including: * ''Your Eyes and The Old Melody'' (original: ʻAynāki wa-al-Lahn al-qadīm) * ''al-Diwan''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jamal al-Din, Mustafa Muslim poets University of Baghdad alumni Muslim writers Iraqi scholars Iraqi writers 21st-century Iraqi writers 21st-century Arabic-language writers 21st-century Arabic-language poets Iraqi emigrants to Syria 1926 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Iraqi poets