Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas

male, deceased (810)
Pederasty in the Middle East, Pederasty in the Muslim world, Ahvaz, Pederastic poetry, arab, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights…Arabic poet, 750 in poetry, Arabicpoetry, 810 in poetry
Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami, was a renowned Arabic poet. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, he was of Arab and Persian descent. He is...
Abu Tammam

Abu Tammam

male, deceased (845)
Tayy, Epic poetry, epic, Homs, Hamadan, Arabicpoetry…Arabic poet
Abu Tammam (Habib ibn Aus) Arabic, أبو تمام حبيب بن أوس was an Arab poet of the tribe of Tayy (though some say he was the son of a Christian apothe...
Khalil Ibn Ahmad

Khalil Ibn Ahmad

male, deceased (791)
Medieval linguist, Arabic poet, writer, From Basra, arab, sunni…Arabicpoetry
Khalíl ibn Ahmad Al Farāhídi was a writer and philologist from southern Arabia (modern day Oman) who compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic lan...

Ahmad Al-Tifashi

male, deceased (1253)
Pederasty in the Muslim world, Medieval writer, Arabic poet, writer, tunisian, tunisia…Arabicpoetry
Ahmad al-Tifashi, born in Tunisia (d. 1253) was an Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist. Little is known of his life. He appears to have lived...
Al-Nabigha

Al-Nabigha

male, deceased (604)
Christian, pre-Islamic, Diwans of the six ancient Arabic Poet, islam, mecca, Medieval writer…Arabicpoetry, Arabic poet, 535 in poetry, 604 in poetry
al-Nabigha (al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani, real name Ziyad ibn Muawiyah) (Arabic: , Arabian Christian poet, was one of the last poets of pre-Islamic...

Bashar Ibn Burd

male, deceased (784)
Mawali, Bashār ibn Burd, Arabic literature, Arabicpoetry, Arabic poet, basra…714 in poetry, 784 in poetry
Bashār ibn Burd nicknamed "al-Mura'ath" meaning the wattled, was a poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods. Bashar was of Persian o...
Fadwa Toukan

Fadwa Toukan

female, deceased (2003)
poet, arab, palestinian, nablus, writer, Arabicpoetry…Arab poetry
Fadwa Toukan (also transliterated as "Fadwa Tuqan",, ; b. 1917 in Nablus, d. 2003), known as the "Poet of Palestine", was a well-known for her...

Baha' Al-Din Zuhair

male, deceased (1258)
damascus, poet, Arabic poet, biographical dictionary, old testament, nablus…Arabicpoetry
Baha' al-din Zuhair (1186-1258) was an Arabian poet born at or near Mecca, and became celebrated as the best writer of prose and verse and the best...

Abdullah Ibn Al-Mu'Tazz

male, deceased (908)
caliph, Arabic poet, Abbasid caliph, abbasid dynasty, mecca, Medieval writer…Arabicpoetry
Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz was persuaded to assume the role of caliph of the Abbasid dynasty following the premature death of al-Muktafi. He succeeded...

Samaw'Al Ibn 'Adiya

male
al-Munthir ibn Ma' as-Sama', harun, chainmail, warrior, medina, Mizrahi Jew…in poetry, Arabicpoetry
as-Samaw’al (Shmuel) bin ‘Ādiyā’ or Samuel ibn 'Adiya was an Arabian Jewish poet and warrior, in the first half of the 6th century. His mother w...