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Also Known As Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī
Born 915 • Kūfah • Iraq
Died September 23, 965 (aged 50) • Iraq
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian poet
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
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Ameen Rihani
Arab American author and political figure
Adonis
Adonis
Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic
Al Neimi, Salwa
Salwa Al Neimi
Syrian author and journalist
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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author
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Imruʾ al-Qays
Arab poet
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Nizār Qabbānī
Syrian poet and diplomat
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al-Maʿarrī
Arab poet
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Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli
Turkish author
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al-Farazdaq
Islamic poet
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad
al-Ḥarīrī
Islamic scholar
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Iliya Abu Madi
Arab writer
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese-American author
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Jarīr
Arab poet
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Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Arab poet
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al-Buḥturī
Arab author
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Abū Nuwās
Persian poet
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Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm
Egyptian poet

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