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Also Known As ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Nābulusī
Born March 19, 1641 • Damascus • Syria
Died March 5, 1731 (aged 89)
Subjects Of Study Sufism
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Al Neimi, Salwa
Salwa Al Neimi
Syrian author and journalist
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Nizār Qabbānī
Syrian poet and diplomat
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Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
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Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī
Islamic mystic
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Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
Abū Tammām
Abū Tammām
Syrian poet
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ʿUmar Abū Rīshah
Syrian poet and diplomat
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre
Turkish poet
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist

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