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'Ali ibn Harb Tai
'Ali ibn Harb al-Tai was a hadith scholar, man of letters, and poet of Mosul who died in 265 AH; his narrations appear in the two Sahih collections.
Abbas Beydoun
Abbas Beydoun (عباس بيضون), born 1945 in Tyre, Lebanon, is a poet, novelist, and journalist, a pioneer of the Arabic prose poem who won the 2017 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (عبد الوهاب البياتي, 1926–1999) was an Iraqi poet, a key figure in the Free Verse Movement who spent more than half his life in exile.
Abdel Rahman El-Abnudi
Abdel Rahman El-Abnudi (عبد الرحمن الأبنودي, 1938–2015) was an Egyptian colloquial poet and folklorist from Upper Egypt, known for freeing vernacular poetry into free verse and collecting the Sira Hilaliyya epic.
Abdellatif Laabi
Abdellatif Laâbi, born 1942 in Fès, is a Moroccan poet who founded the journal Souffles, served eight years in prison, and won the 2009 Prix Goncourt de la poésie.
Abdo Wazen
Abdo Wazen (عبده وازن) is a Lebanese poet, literary critic, and cultural journalist born in Beirut in 1957. He headed Al-Hayat's cultural section, wrote nine poetry collections, and published interviews with Mahmoud Darwish.
Abdulaziz al-Babtain
Abdulaziz Saud al-Babtain (عبدالعزيز سعود البابطين) was a Kuwaiti poet, businessman, and cultural philanthropist who founded an award for Arabic poetry in 1989 and died in December 2023.
Abolqasem Lahouti
Abolqasem Lahouti (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی, 1887–1957) was an Iranian Marxist poet and political activist who became a founder of modern Tajik poetry and wrote the Tajik national anthem.
Abraham ibn Ezra
Abraham ibn Ezra was a twelfth-century Jewish poet, biblical commentator, grammarian, and astronomer from Tudela, Spain, best known for his Hebrew Bible commentaries and influential works on astronomy and astrology.
Abu al-Atahiya
Abu al-Atahiya (أبو العتاهية), full name Isma'il ibn al-Qasim, was an Abbasid Arabic poet born in 747 who abandoned court love poetry around 796 to write ascetic verse on death and the hereafter.
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi (أبو القاسم الشابي, 1909–1934) was a Tunisian Romantic poet who called for renewing Arabic poetry; his line "If one day the people wills to live" is in the national anthem.
Abu Nuwas (أبو نواس)
Abu Nuwas (أبو نواس), al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami, c. 756–c. 810–815, Abbasid Arabic poet of Ahwaz, Basra, and Baghdad, famed for khamriyyat wine poems, court companion of al-Amin, and influence from Iberia to India.
Abu'l-Faraj Runi
Abu'l-Faraj Runi (ابوالفرج رونی), fully Abū al-Faraj ibn Masʿūd al-Rūnī, was an 11th-century Persian court poet of Ghaznavid Lahore who, with Mas'ud-e Sa'd-e Salman, founded Persian poetry in India.
Adi Keissar
Adi Keissar (עדי קיסר; born 1980) is an Israeli poet of Yemenite descent, founder of the Ars Poetica movement and a leading voice in contemporary Mizrahi poetry.
Admiel Kosman
Admiel Kosman (אדמיאל קוסמן, born 1957) is an Israeli poet and Talmud scholar who is a professor at the University of Potsdam and has published nine books of Hebrew poetry.
Agi Mishol
Agi Mishol (אגי משעול, born 1946) is an Israeli poet, born in Transylvania to Holocaust-survivor parents, and one of the most widely read Hebrew poets of her generation.
Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai (אהרן שבתאי; born 1939 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli poet and translator who rendered Greek drama and Homer into Hebrew and wrote politically charged poetry, including J'Accuse (2003).
Ahmad Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi
Ahmad Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi (أحمد عبد المعطي حجازي, born 1935) is an Egyptian modernist poet and journalist who led the renewal of Egyptian verse from the late 1950s.
Ahmad Yasawi
Ahmad Yasawi (Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, 1093–1166) was a Turkic Sufi poet of Central Asia, founder of Turkic-language Sufi poetry and author of the Diwani Hikmat.
Ahmadreza Ahmadi
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (احمدرضا احمدی; 1940–2023) was an Iranian poet, playwright, and children's author, founder of the New Wave movement in Persian poetry who published more than 23 poetry collections.
Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif, born Ahmet Hamdi Önal (1927–1991), was a Turkish poet of Kurdish origin whose single collection, Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (1968), remains among Turkey's best-selling poetry books.
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Ahmed Fouad Negm (أحمد فؤاد نجم, 1929–2013), nicknamed El-Fagomi, was an Egyptian poet of the poor who wrote satirical political verse in colloquial Egyptian Arabic.
Ahmed Paşa
Ahmed Paşa (Veliyyüddîn-zâde Ahmed Paşa, c. 1426–1497) was an Ottoman divan poet and statesman, regarded as a founding poet of classical Ottoman poetry under Mehmed II.
Ahmet Erhan
Ahmet Erhan, pen name of Erhan Bozkurt, was a Turkish poet, story writer, and essayist born in Ankara in 1958, a leading name of the socially realist 1980-generation poetry.
Ahmet Haşim
Ahmet Haşim, also known as Ahmed Hâşim, was a Turkish poet and essayist, the leading poet of the Fecr-i Ati movement and a founder of modern Turkish poetry.
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, who died in 1980 in Ankara, was a Turkish poet and playwright best known for the poem "Fahriye Abla" and his small, carefully polished body of syllabic verse.
Al-Husri
Al-Husri (الحصري) was an Arabic poet and man of letters of Qayrawān in Ifrīqiyya, famed for the anthology Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-albāb, a foundational work of Arabic literature.
Al-Mutanabbi (المتنبي)
Al-Mutanabbi (المتنبي), Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, 915–965, Kufa-born Abbasid poet, greatest of the fourth century AH; court poet of Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo for nine years, later praised and satirized Kafur; killed near Dayr al-Aqul.
Ali Ahmad Bakathir
Ali Ahmad Bakathir (علي أحمد باكثير; 1910–1969) was a Hadrami-born Egyptian poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in Egypt and led the twentieth-century Islamic historical novel in Arabic.
Ali al-Jarim
Ali al-Jarim (علي الجارم, 1881–1949) was an Egyptian poet, prose writer, and educator who served as chief inspector of Arabic in Egypt and co-wrote the grammar series al-Nahw al-Wadih.