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A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited "Fleas" as above, and Ali responded, "I've got one: Me? Whee!!" [3] [4] [5]
America. ISBN. 9788184759969. The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 collection of poems written by the Kashmiri-American [a] poet Agha Shahid Ali. [2][3] The title poem, which has become a symbol for freedom, is one of the most famous about Kashmir. In the decades since its publication, under renewed conflict and censorship in the region ...
Ali Hujwiri described the first caliph of Islam Abu Bakr (d. 634) as "the Greatest Truthful," [9] and deemed him "the leader (imām) of all the folk of this Path." [9] Eulogizing Abu Bakr's piety, Ali Hujwiri praised him for how "he gave away all his wealth and his clients, and clad himself in a woolen garment, and came to the Messenger Muhammad "[10] and stated elsewhere that he "is placed by ...
Ahmad Ali Hassan (1916–2010), in Arabic أحمد علي حسن, is a Syrian classical poet born in 1916 in Almlaja village in Tartous and died in the morning of 5 July 2010. Early life [ edit ]
e. Abu-al-Hasan Ali ben Abdallah al-Nuymari as-Shushtari (Arabic: ابو الحسن الششتري) or Al-Sustari (1212 in Exfiliana, near Guadix – 1269 in Damietta [1]) was an Andalusian - Arab Sufi Sheikh, philosopher, jurist, and poet. [2] He is best known by posterity for his poetry, which was designed to be sung in songs employing simple ...
Biography. Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) was born c. 965 to a family of Arab [9][31][32][33][34] or Persian [35][36][37][38][39] origin in Basra, Iraq, which was at the time part of the Buyid emirate. His initial influences were in the study of religion and service to the community. At the time, society had a number of conflicting views of religion ...
Ali al-Sajjad was born around 658 CE. He survived the Battle of Karbala in 680, in which Husayn and his small caravan were massacred en route to Kufa by the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683). After the battle, al-Sajjad and other survivors were treated poorly and taken to the Umayyad capital Damascus.
Another example is his poem titled "Fe Qadyat Al-Mawateer", which was written in 1928 and sent to Abdul Karim Hassan al-Ajmi, a close associate of his brother Sultan Abdul Karim Fadl. In this poem, al-Qamadan offers a critique of the government's failure to address the deficiencies in the transportation infrastructure. He highlights the ...