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Ibn Mu‘ṭī al-Zawāwī (ابن معطي الزواوي)—Abū 'l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn ‘Abd al-Nur Zayn al-Dīn al-Zawāwī, [2] or Abū Zakarīyā’ Yaḥyā ibn ‘Abd al-Mu’ṭī ibn ‘Abdannūr az-Zawāwī (c. 1168-1169 – 1231 CE (564–628 AH)); was a Ḥanafī faqīh (jurist), grammarian, poet and philologian of the Maghreb and the author of first versified grammatical work ...
Deknong Kemalawati was born on 2 April 1965, in Meulaboh, Aceh.She graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Syiah Kuala University, and worked as a mathematics teacher in high school.
Taufiq Ismail (born 25 June 1935) is an Indonesian poet, activist and the editor of the monthly literary magazine Horison. [1] Ismail figured prominently in Indonesian literature of the post-Sukarno period and is considered one of the pioneers of the "Generation of '66". [2]
Philipus Joko Pinurbo (11 May 1962 [1] – 27 April 2024 [2]), commonly known by the nickname Jokpin, [3] was an Indonesian poet. [4] His works were deemed innovative for their use of humour and everyday objects, as well as simple language, to touch on contemporary social issues.
Sitor Situmorang (2 October 1924 – 21 December 2014) was an Indonesian poet, essayist and writer of short stories. Situmorang was born in Harianboho, North Sumatra, and educated in Jakarta.
A semi-autobiographical novel that cuts across several genres - historical, travel, mystery, and romance - Pulau Renik Ungu depicts Zaidah, a Malaysian university lecturer who travels the world for her doctoral research.
He was inducted into a Sufi order [6] and it is thought that he may have worked at the court of the Aceh Sultanate. Hamzah travelled widely, and was known to have visited the Malay Peninsula, Mughal India, Mecca and Medina, and Baghdad. [4] He was one of the earliest Southeast Asians to have completed the hajj during the early 16th century.
The grammarian Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nahhas (d. 949 CE) says in his commentary on the Mu'allaqat: "The true view of the matter is this: when Hammad al-Rawiya saw how little men cared for poetry, he collected these seven pieces, urged people to study them, and said to them: 'These are the [poems] of renown.'" [2] [3] Orfali suggests that the ...