Ibrahim 'Ali Salman () (1937 – March 30, 1995) is the most famous contemporary poet of the Arab

Manasir The Manasir people () constitute one of many Sunni Arab riverine tribes of Northern Sudan. They are not to be confused with the Manasir (tribe), Manasir of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf region in the Arabian Peninsula-based ma ...

who inhabit the area of the

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of the

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in Northern

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. He is referred to by the Manasir simply as "Ibrahim the poet" (إبراهيم الشاعر). Ibrahim 'Ali Salman was born in 1937 as the youngest son of his father "The poet 'Ali" (al-Sha'ir 'Ali, الشاعر علي). The poetry about his homeland Dar al-Manasir and the ongoing issue of the relocation of his tribe as a result of the

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project is written in the Colloquial Arab language of the Manasir. The poems of Ibrahim al-Sha'ir had been collected and compiled by his former student al-Nadhir Tag al-Sirr al-Bashir (النذير تاج السر البشير). The compilation comprises his life's work and is called "The Genius Diwan of the Manasir" (ديوان عبقرية المناصير). It probably is the only literary document from within Dar al-Manasir.

External links

*The Arabic source material for Diwan of the Manasir
Diwan 'Abqariah al-Manasir. Li-Ustadh Ibrahim 'Ali al-Sha'ir (PDF)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrahim Ali Salman 1995 deaths 20th-century Sudanese poets Year of birth missing