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Hovhannes Tlkurantsi
Hovhannes Tlkurantsi is a late medieval Armenian lyric poet who composed more than forty poems, among the first published authors of medieval Armenian poetry; his collected Tagher appeared in Yerevan in 1960.
Ibn Abi al-Asba'
Ibn Abi al-Asba' (ابن أبي الأصبع) was an Egyptian scholar and poet, called "the poet of Egypt," known for works on badi' and Qur'anic rhetoric.
Ibn al-Hajjaj
Ibn al-Hajjaj (ابن الحجاج) was an Iraqi poet of the Buyid era who popularized sukhf, obscene scatological parody, after serving as Baghdad's market inspector; he died in 1001.
Ibn Harma
Ibn Harma (إبراهيم بن هرمة), also known as Abu Ishaq, was a Medinan Arabic poet known for love poetry and panegyric who died around 792 CE.
Ibn Nubata
Ibn Nubata (ابن نباتة) was an Arabic poet and prose writer of the Mamluk era, born in Cairo in 1287 and died there in 1366.
Ibn Quzman
Ibn Quzman (ابن قزمان) was a Cordoban poet of al-Andalus who died in 1160 and is regarded as the leading composer of zajal, the strophic vernacular poetry of al-Andalus.
Ibrahim Nagi
Ibrahim Nagi (إبراهيم ناجي) was an Egyptian physician and poet, a leading romantic figure in modern Arabic poetry whose ode "Al-Atlal" became famous through Umm Kulthum.
İlhan Berk
İlhan Berk (1918–2008), born Emrullah İlhan Birsen in Manisa, was a leading Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni (Second New) movement, known for experimental, prose, and object-centered poetry.
Imran ibn Hattan
Imran ibn Hattan (عمران بن حطان السدوسي; died 703) was a Basran poet, orator, and hadith transmitter who led the Qa'ada of the Sufriyya Kharijites and was hunted by al-Hajjaj.
Iraj Mirza
Iraj Mirza (ایرج‌میرزا), titled Jalal-al-Mamalek, was a Persian poet and satirist of the Qajar and Constitutional era, a pioneer of colloquial language in Persian verse.
İsmet Özel
İsmet Özel, born in Kayseri in 1944, is a Turkish poet and essayist whose career moved from socialist-realist verse in the 1960s to an Islamist and nationalist framework after 1974.
Israel Najara
Israel Najara, Hebrew ישראל נג'ארה, was a Hebrew poet, rabbi, and kabbalist born in Safed around 1550 who wrote roughly one thousand songs and died as rabbi of Gaza around 1625.
Jamil Buthayna
Jamil Buthayna (جميل بثينة), the poet Jamil ibn Abdallah, was an Umayyad-era Arabian master of ghazal ʿudhri, chaste love poetry devoted wholly to Buthayna; he died in 701.
Javad Mojabi
Javad Mojabi (جواد مجابی) was an Iranian poet, novelist, satirist, painter, and art critic active for more than six decades until his death in 2026.
Kahlil Gibran (جبران خليل جبران)
Kahlil Gibran (جبران خليل جبران, 1883–1931), Lebanese-born poet, painter, and Mahjar writer of The Prophet; also Gibran Khalil Gibran, Pen League founder, best-selling American poet of the twentieth century.
Karacaoğlan
Karacaoğlan is the pen name of a celebrated Turkish folk poet, probably of the 17th century in southern Anatolia, about 500 of whose poems are sung as folk songs.
Khalil Hawi
Khalil Hawi (خليل حاوي; 1919 – 1982) was a Lebanese poet, critic, and professor of Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut, a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry.
Khaqani
Khaqani (خاقانی) was a Persian poet of the 12th century, born in Shirvan, regarded as one of the greatest and most difficult masters of the qaṣida.
Kisa'i Marvazi
Kisa'i Marvazi (کسایی مروزی), born in Marv in 953, was a Persian poet remembered as a pioneer of religious and ethical poetry and author of the earliest Persian elegy on Karbala.
Leylâ Hanım
Leylâ Hanım (died 1848) was an Ottoman divan poet from Istanbul, ranked among the five most important women poets of classical Turkish poetry; her only work is her Dîvân of 2,534 couplets.
Ma'ruf al-Rusafi
Ma'ruf al-Rusafi (معروف الرصافي) was an Iraqi social poet, reformer, and statesman, 1875–1945, a leading neo-classical poet whose verse attacked ignorance, called for education, and championed women's liberation.
Magtymguly Pyragy
Magtymguly Pyragy, also rendered Makhtumkuli Fraghi, was an 18th-century Turkmen poet and Sufi philosopher who wrote in spoken Turkmen and is called the father of Turkmen poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش)
Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش, 1941–2008), Palestine's most eminent poet, author of over 30 poetry books including "Identity Card" and "Rita and the Rifle," PLO executive committee member who wrote the 1988 Declaration of Independence and died in Houston after heart surgery.
Manouchehr Atashi
Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی, 1931–2005) was an Iranian poet, translator, and journalist who gave the landscape and people of southern Iran a voice in modern Persian poetry.
Manuchehri
Manuchehri (منوچهری) was the pen name of Abū'l-Najm Aḥmad of Dāmghān, an 11th-century Persian court poet famed for nature descriptions, wine poetry, and the musammaṭ form.
Maroun Abboud
Maroun Abboud (مارون عبود), 1886–1962, was a Lebanese writer, poet, journalist, and literary critic regarded as a pioneer of the modern Arabic literary renaissance in Lebanon.
Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa
Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa (مروان بن أبي حفصة) was an Arabic poet of Yamama, 723–798, who praised the Abbasid caliphs al-Mahdi, al-Hadi, and Harun al-Rashid.
Mehdi Akhavan Sales
Mehdi Akhavan Sales (مهدی اخوان ثالث), pen name M. Omid, was an Iranian poet of the Nimaic school of modern Persian poetry, best known for Zemestān (Winter, 1956).
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (مهدی حمیدی شیرازی) was an Iranian poet, critic, and University of Tehran professor known for defending classical Persian verse against Nima Yooshij's modernist poetry.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (Mehmed Âkif Ersoy, 1873–1936) was a Turkish poet, veterinarian, and teacher best known for writing the Turkish national anthem, İstiklal Marşı, adopted in 1921, and the seven-book corpus Safahat.