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English poet Leigh Hunt's poem "Abou Ben Adhem" is a story of Ibrahim ibn Adham. [12] In turn, the musical Flahooley features a genie named Abou Ben Atom, played in the original 1951 Broadway production by Irwin Corey .
El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (Arabic: محمد بن إبراهيم بن السراج المراكشي; 1897–1955) was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakech of the first part of the 20th century. He wrote poems for both king Mohammed V and for his opponent El Glaoui.
Sambandar, Tamil Shaiva Poet and who was one of the 63 Nayanars who composed 16,000 hymns [257] Sri Sri, Indian poet who is known for his works in Telugu literature and anthology Maha Prasthanam [258] Subramani Bharathi, Tamil poet popularly known as "Mahakavi Bharathi" ("Great Poet Bharathi"), he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry [259] [260]
Little is known of Bhāmaha's life: the last verse of the Kāvyālaṃkāra says his father was called Rakrilagomin, but little more is known: [7] Later Kashmiri writers often treat Bhāmaha as the founding father of Sanskrit poetics and, by the same token, make him stand for everything that is old school, a trend that must have begun with ...
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [1] was a Persian lyric poet [2] [3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature.
Pioneering British writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who used humour and wit to address political injustices, has died aged 65.. The dub poet, known for his works about refugees and healthy ...
The poetry of Shaykh Umar Ibn al-Farid is considered by many to be the pinnacle of Arabic mystical verse, though surprisingly he is not widely known in the West. ( Rumi , probably the best known in the West of the great Sufi poets, wrote primarily in Persian , not Arabic.)
Her father was the Iraqi poet Abd al-Muhsin al-Kadhimi . [2] Her Tunisian mother, Aisha, died when she was ten years old. [ 3 ] Her father encouraged her interest in poetry and she published widely in Egyptian periodicals in the 1920s and 1930s. [ 4 ]