List of Arabic language poets, most of whom were or are

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in poetry" article. The alphabetical order is by first names.

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* Ahmadou Bamba (1853–1927) * Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964) * Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750–809) (عباس بن الأحنف) * Abdallah Zrika (

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

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Abd Allah ibn Rawahah Abd Allah ibn Rawahah ibn Tha'laba (), was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who was killed in the Battle of Mut'ah. Biography Ibn Rawaha was from the Arabian tribe of Banu Khazraj. The Sealed Nectarbr>The Second ‘Aqabah ...

(d.630) * Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi (b.

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

) * Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi (d. 1230) * Abd Al-Rahman Shokry (

1886 Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British rule in Burma, British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5–January 9, 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson ...

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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

) * Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati (

1926 In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...

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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

) * Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (d. 1298) * Abdel Latif Moubarak (b. 1964) * Abdel Mohsin Musellem (b.1958) *

Abderrahman El Majdoub Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub (, March 150626May 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub ibn Ayyad ibn Yaacub ibn Salama ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali, was a Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic. Many li ...

(d. 1568) * Abdul Rahman Yusuf (b. 1970) *

Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (; 861 – 29 December 908) was the son of the caliph al-Mu'tazz and a political figure, but is better known as a leading Arabic poet and the author of the ''Kitab al-Badi'', an early study of Arabic forms of poetry. ...

(861–908) * Abo Al Qassim Al Shabbi * Abu 'Afak (7th Century) *

Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (), 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) (897–967Common Era, CE / 284–356Islamic calendar, AH) w ...

(897–967) * Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (1212–1269) *

Abu Nuwas Abu Nuwas () (756-8) was a classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative of the modern (''muhdath'') poetry that developed during the first years of the Abbasid Caliphate. He also entered the folkloric tradition, appearing several ...

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Abu Tammam Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī (; ca. 796/807 - 845), better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām (), was an Arab Muslim poet. He is well known for compiling the Hamasah, which is considered to be one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic litera ...

(''c.'' 805–845) *

Abu-l-'Atahiya Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya (; 748–828), full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi (), was one of the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific ''muwallad'' poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, ...

(748–828) * Ahmad al-Tifashi (d.

1253 Year 1253 ( MCCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * January 18 – King Henry I of Cyprus ("the Fat") dies and is succeeded by his son Hugh II, who is only a few months ol ...

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Ahmed Shawqi Ahmed Shawqi (, , ; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets ( ''Amīr al-Shu‘arā’''), was an Egyptian poet laureate, linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World. Life Shawqi was b ...

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1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

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al-Akhtal Ghiyath ibn Ghawth ibn al-Salt ibn Tariqa al-Taghlibi () commonly known as al-Akhtal () (The Loquacious), was one of the most famous Arab poets of the Umayyad period. He belonged to the Banu Taghlib tribe, and was, like his fellow-tribesmen, a C ...

(''c.'' 640–710) * Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha (570–625) *

al-Buhturi Al-Walīd ibn Ubaidillah Al-Buḥturī () (821–97 AD; 206–84 AH) was an Arab poet born at Manbij in Islamic Syria, between Aleppo and the Euphrates. Like Abū Tammām (), he was of the tribe of Tayy, This references the Biography in McG. de ...

(820–897) *

al-Farazdaq Hammam Ibn Ghalib Al-Tamimi (; born 641 AD/20 AH died 728– 730 AD/110-112 AH), more commonly known as Al-Farazdaq () or Abu Firas (), was a 7th-century Arab poet and orator who was born in the Rashidun Caliphate of Umar and flourished durin ...

(d. ''c.'' 729) * al-Fath ibn Khaqan (817–861) *

Adunis Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, Levantine Arabic, North Levantine ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a mod ...

(b. 1928–) * Ali Al Jallawi (b. 1975–) * 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Busiri (d.

1296 Year 1296 ( MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * March 30 – Capture of Berwick: King Edward I of England storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this t ...

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al-Khansa Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah (), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ (, meaning "snub-nosed", an Arabic epithet for a gazelle as metaphor for beauty) was a 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Ara ...

(600–670) * Abu ibn Abd Allah al-Ma'arri (973–1057) *

Al-Mutanabbi Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( – 965 AD), commonly known as Al-Mutanabbi (), was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of ...

(915–965) * al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani (6th century) * 'Alqama ibn 'Abada (6th century) *

Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq (, ') was a composer of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the Jewish tribe of Banu al-Nadir in Medina, flourishing shortly before the Hijra (622 CE). His family was in possession of the fort Qamus, situated near Khaybar. Lik ...

(7th Century) * al-Walid ibn Yazid, (d. 744) *

Amr ibn Kulthum ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm ibn Mālik ibn ʿAttāb ʾAbū Al-ʾAswad al-Taghlibi (; 526–584) was a poet and chieftain of the Taghlib tribe in pre-Islamic Arabia. One of his poems was included in the ''Mu'allaqat''. He is the grandson of the poet Abu L ...

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'Antara Ibn Shaddad Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (; 525–608 AD), also known as ʿAntar (), was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet and knight, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the '' Mu'allaqāt'', the collection of seven "h ...

(d. ''c.'' 580) *

Asma bint Marwan ʻAṣmāʼ bint Marwān ( "Ãsma, daughter of Marwan") a female Arab poet said to have lived in Medina in 7th-century Arabia. There is debate whether Muhammad ordered her assassinated for her agitating against Muhammad. Islamic sources Family ...

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* Badawi al-Jabal, (b.

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...

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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Badr Shakir al-Sayyab () (December 24, 1926 in Jaykur, Basra – December 24, 1964 in Kuwait) was an Iraqi poet, regarded as one of the most important contemporary Arab poets. Alongside Nazik Al Malaika, he is considered one of the founders of A ...

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

) * Bashshar ibn Burd (714–784) * Bashir Copti, (1929–) ( بشير عيسى قبطي) *

Bhai Nand Lal Bhai Nand Lal (; ; 1633–1720), also known by his pen name Goya (; ), was a 17th-century Sikh poet in the Punjab region. Biography Bhai Nand Lal, a respected Persian scholar, was one of the 52 poets associated with Guru Gobind Singh. Born in G ...

(1633–1713)- composed mainly in Urdu and Persian

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* Fadwa Toukan (

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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Mahjar The Mahjar (, one of its more literal meanings being "the Arab diaspora") was a movement related to Romanticism migrant literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to the Americas from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and ...

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* Francis Marrash (

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* Jibra'il Dallal

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* Hafiz Ibrahim (

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Hassan ibn Thabit Hassan ibn Thabit () (born c. 563, Medina died 674) was an Arabian poet and one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was best known for poems in defense of the prophet. He was born in Medina, and was a member of the Banu Khazr ...

(d. ''c.'' 674) * Hilmi M. Zawati (b.1953) (حلمي زواتي)

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Ibn al-Farid Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid; (, ''`Umar ibn `Alī ibn al-Fārid'') (22 March 11811234) was an Arab poet as well as a Sufi waliullah. His name is Arabic for "son of the obligator" (the one who divides the inheritance between the inheritors), as hi ...

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1181 Year 1181 ( MCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * King Philip II (Augustus) annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians, and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he ...

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1235 Year 1235 ( MCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events * Connacht in Ireland is finally conquered by the Hiberno-Norman Richard Mór de Burgh; Felim Ua Conchobair is expelled. * A general inquisition begins ...

Ibn al-Khatib Lisan ad-Din Ibn al-Khatib (; 16 November 1313 – 1374) was an Arab Andalusi polymath, poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician and politician from Emirate of Granada. Being one of the most notable poets from Granada, his poems decorate ...

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Ibn al-Rumi Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Abbās ibn Jūrayj (), also known as Ibn al-Rūmī (born Baghdad in 836; died 896), was the grandson of George the Greek (Jūraij or Jūrjis i.e. Georgius) and a popular Arab poet of Baghdād in the Abbāsid-era. By ...

, (d. 896) * Muhyi al-din ibn al-'Arabi, (d.

1240 Year 1240 ( MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * May 24 – Duke Skule Bårdsson, claimant to the Norwegian throne, is defeated by King Haakon IV (the Old) and his supporters. ...

) * Ibn Duraid (837–934) *

Ibn Juzayy Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Juzayy Al Gharnati (), better known as Ibn Juzayy () was an Al-Andalus, Andalusian Sunni Muslim scholar of Arab origin. He was a distinguished Maliki Faqih, jurist, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, legal theoretician, T ...

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1340 Year 1340 ( MCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events * January 26 – King Edward III of England declares himself King of France at Ghent, Flanders. * March 6 – Bohemian Crusade: The Church auth ...

) * Ibn Khafajah, (b.

1039 Year 1039 ( MXXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 4 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, ("the Elder") dies of gout in Utrecht after a 12-year reign. He is succeeded by h ...

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Ibn Quzman Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Isa Abd al-Malik ibn Isa ibn Quzman al-Zuhri (; 1087–1160) was the single most famous poet in the history of Al-Andalus and he is also considered to be one of its most original. One of the characteristics of his poetry was ...

(1078–1160) * Ibn Munadhir (d. 814) *

Ibn Sahl of Sevilla Ibn Sahl (Arabic: أبو إسحاق إبرهيم بن سهل الإسرائيلي الإشبيلي Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Ibn Sahl al-Isra'ili al-Ishbili) of Seville (1212–1251) is considered one of the greatest Andalusi poets of the 13th century. ...

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Ibn Zaydún Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad Ibn Zaydouni al-Makhzūmī (; 1003–1071), or simply known as Ibn Zaydoun () or Abenzaidun, was an Arab Andalusian poet of Córdoba, Spain, Cordoba and Seville. He was considered the greatest neoclassical poet of al-Andalus ...

( 1003– 1071) * Ibrahim Al-Mausili (742–804) *

Ibrahim Nagi Ibrahim Nagi () (December 31, 1898 – March 27, 1953) was an Egyptian polymath; a poet, author, translator, and practicing medical doctor. He was among the contributors of '' Al Siyasa'', newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party. Early l ...

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1898 Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queen ...

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) * Ibrahim Touqan (

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

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1941 The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...

* Iliyya Abu Madi, (d.

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

) * Iman Mersal *

Imru' al-Qais Imruʾ al-Qais Junduh bin Hujr al-Kindi () was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet from Najd in the late fifth and early sixth centuries, and the last King of Kinda. He is sometimes considered the father of Arabic poetry. His qaṣīda, or long poe ...

(6th century) * Ismail ibn Yasar al-Nisai *

Ibrahim Niass Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or , , ''Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī'' —was a Senegalese major leader (wolof) of the Tijānī Sufi order of Islam in West Africa. His followers ...

(1900–1975)

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* Jabal ibn Jawwal (7th Century) * Jamal Jumá (b.

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

) * Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, (d.

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funer ...

) * Jarir ibn `Atiyah al-Khatfi (d. ''c.'' 728)

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Kulaib ibn Rabiah Kulaib ibn Rabi'ah al-Taghlibi (Arabic: كليب بن ربيعة التغلبي) also known as Wa'il al-Taghlibi was a pre-Islamic tribal chief and the first of the Adnanites to become a king over them. Under his rule, the Adnanites gained promine ...

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Ka'b bin Zuhayr Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr () was an Arabian poet of the 7th century, and a contemporary of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Ka'b ibn Zuhayr was the writer of ''Bānat Suʿād (Su'ād Has Departed)'', a qasida in praise of Muhammad. This was the first na'at ...

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Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and Visual arts, visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself reject ...

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1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

) * Khalil ibn Ahmad (718–791) * Khalil Mutran (d.

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...

) * Kumait Ibn Zaid (679–743) *

Kuthayyir Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman () (c. 660 – c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah () was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd. He was born in Medina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt. In his poems he was o ...

(ca. 660-ca. 723) * Khalifa Niass (1881–1959)

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* Labīd (560–661) * Layla al-Akhyaliyyah, (d. 704)

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* Mahjoub Sharif (1948–2014) *

Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish (; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinians, Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declarat ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

) * Mahmud Sami al-Barudi (d.

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...

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Mana Al Otaiba Mana Al Otaiba (; born 15 May 1946 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), son of Saeed Al Otaiba, is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the United Arab Emirates under the presidency of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Al ...

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Mansur al-Hallaj Mansour al-Hallaj () or Mansour Hallaj () ( 26 March 922) ( Hijri 309 AH) was a Persian HanbaliChristopher Melchert, "The Ḥanābila and the Early Sufis," ''Arabica'', T. 48, Fasc. 3 (2001), p. 352 mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He ...

(d. 922) * Maram al-Masri (b. 1962) * Maruf al Rusafi * Maryana Marrash (

1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...

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1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off th ...

) * Masoud Juni (

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

) * Mohamed Ghozzi (20th century) * Mohammed Abdalbari (b. 1985) * Mohammed Bennis (1948–) * Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (d. 1708) * Mourid Barghouti (b.

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...

) * Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi, (d. 973) * Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (1040–1095) *

Muhammad ibn Ammar Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAmmār al-Quḍā'ī (;1031–1086), known as Ibn Ammar, in Spanish sources found as Abenámar, was an Arab poet from Silves. Ibn Ammar became vizier to the ''taifa'' of Seville. Though ...

(''c.'' 1031–1086) * Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, (d.

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

) * Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri * Muhammed Almagut (

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

) * Muhannad Al-Shawi, (b. 1974) *

Malick Sy El-Hadji Malick Sy (, 1853–1922) was a Senegalese religious leader and teacher in the Tijaniyya Sufi Malikite and Ash'arite brotherhood. Life Born in Gaya, northern Senegal, to a Fulani family, El-Hadji Malick Sy traveled to Mauritania, then ...

(1855–1922)

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* Najma Idrees *

Nazik Al-Malaika Nazik al-Malaika (; 23 August 1923 – 20 June 2007) was an Iraqi poet. Al-Malaika is noted for being among the first Arabic poets to use free verse. Early life and career Al-Malaika was born in Baghdad to a cultured family. Her mother Salma ...

(1923–2007) * Nizar Qabbani (

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* Orkhan Muyassar (1911?–1965),

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1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...

) * Qays ibn al-Mullawah, (d. 688)

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* Saadi Youssef (1934–2021) *

Said Akl Said Akl (; 4 July 1911 – 28 November 2014) was a Lebanese poet, linguist, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer. He is considered one of the most important Lebanese poets of the modern era. He is most famous for his advocacy on ...

(1911–2014) * Salah Jaheen (1930–1986) * Salah Labaki (1906–1955) * Salman Masalha (b. 1953) *

Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya As-Samaw’al bin ‘Ādiyā’ ( / ) was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet and warrior, esteemed by the Arabs for his loyalty, which was commemorated by an Arabic idiom: "''awfá min as-Samaw’al''" ( / more loyal than al-Samaw'al). He lived in th ...

(d. ''c.'' 560) * Samih al-Qasim (20th century) *

Sidi Boushaki Sidi Boushaki or Ibrahim Ibn Faïd Ez-Zaouaoui () (1394 CE/796 AH – 1453 CE/857 AH) was a Maliki theologian born near the town of Thenia, east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics with ...

(1394–1453)

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* Tarafah ibn al 'Abd (6th century) * Tawfiq Sayigh (d. 1971), modernist proponent of prose poetry *

Tawfiq Ziad Tawfiq Ziad (; ; 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994), also romanized Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, was a Palestinian-Arab politician, poet, and activist who served in Israel's Knesset. He is best known for his advocacy on behalf of Palestinian citize ...

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* 'Umar Abu Rishah (1910–1990) *

Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah al-Makhzūmī () (November 644, Mecca – 712/719, Mecca, full name: Abū ’l-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Rabīʿah Ibn al-Mughayra ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm ibn Yakaza ibn Murra al-M ...

(d. 712)

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* Waddah al-Yaman (d. 708) * Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (994–1091)

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* Yusuf Ghusub (b. 1900), Lebanese symbolist

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* Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609)

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