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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.
As a poet, novelist, painter, translator and literary critic, Jabra was a versatile man of letters. He also translated many works of English literature into Arabic, including Shakespeare's major tragedies, William Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury , chapters 29–33 of Sir James Frazer 's The Golden Bough and some of the work of T. S. Eliot .
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] Suryakant Tripathi, Indian poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer. [261]
Hafez Ibrahim (Arabic: حافظ إبراهيم, ALA-LC: Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm; 1871–1932) was a well known Egyptian poet of the early 20th century. He was dubbed the "Poet of the Nile", and sometimes the "Poet of the People", for his political commitment to the poor. [1]
Under his influence the young Ibrahim also got attracted towards poetry. Hafiz provided the required encouragement, took him as his pupil in poetry too and suggested Zauq as his pen name. Though Zauq could not complete the course of the maktab, he got hooked on poetry. In those days Shah Naseer was the most famous master poet of Delhi.
Al-A'sha (Arabic: ٱلْأَعْشَىٰ) or Maymun Ibn Qays Al-A'sha (d.c. 570– 625) was an Arabic Jahiliyyah poet from Al-Yamama, Arabia. He claims to receive inspiration from a jinni called Misḥal. [1] Although not a Christian himself, his poems proof familiarity with Christianity. [2] He traveled through Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia and ...
One of the most famous of these biographies was written in New Persian by Rumi, which was adapted [according to whom?] into Arabic. [9] Other such biographies were written in Urdu, Awadhi, [11] and Malay, which laid the basis for short biographies in Javanese and Sundanese. English poet Leigh Hunt's poem "Abou Ben Adhem" is a story of Ibrahim ...
Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (Persian: ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی; died 1039/1040) was a 10–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh , today located in Afghanistan , and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni , and was given the title Malik-us Shu'ara (King of ...