List of Arabic-language poets

List of Arabic language poets, most of whom were or are Arabs and who wrote in the Arabic language. Each year links to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. The alphabetical order is by first names.

Alphabetical list

Top
0–9
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

A

Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964)
Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750–809) (عباس بن الأحنف)
Abdallah Zrika (1953)
Abd Allah ibn Rawahah (d.630)
Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi (b. 1938)
Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi (d. 1230)
Abd Al-Rahman Shokry (1886–1958)
Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati (1926–1999)
Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (d. 1298)
Abdel Latif Moubarak (b. 1964)
Abdel Mohsin Musellem (b.1958)
Abderrahman El Majdoub (d. 1568)
Abdul Rahman Yusuf (b. 1970)
Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908)
Abo Al Qassim Al Shabbi
Abu 'Afak (7th Century)
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897–967)
Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (1212-1269)
Abu Nuwas (750–813)
Abu Tammam (c. 805–845)
Abu-l-'Atahiya (748–828)
Ahmad al-Tifashi (d. 1253)
Ahmed Shawqi (1868–1932)
al-Akhtal (c. 640–710)
Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha (570–625)
al-Buhturi (820–897)
al-Farazdaq (d. c. 729)
al-Fath ibn Khaqan (817–861)
Adunis (b. 1928–)
Ali Al Jallawi (b. 1975–)
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Busiri (d. 1296)
al-Khansa (600–670)
Abu ibn Abd Allah al-Ma'arri (973–1057)
Al-Mutanabbi (915–965)
al-Nabighah al-Dhubyani (6th century)
'Alqama ibn 'Abada (6th century)
Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq (7th Century)
al-Walid ibn Yazid, (d. 744)
Amr ibn Kulthum (6th century)
'Antara Ibn Shaddad (d. c. 580)
Asma bint Marwan

B

Badawi al-Jabal, (b. 1907)
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (967–1007)
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, (d. 1964)
Bashshar ibn Burd (714–784)
Bashir Copti, (1929- ) (بشير عيسى قبطي)
Bhai Nand Lal (1633–1713)- composed mainly in Urdu and Persian

F

Fadwa Toukan (1917–2003)
Farhat, Southern Mahjari^[1]
Fawzi Maluf (d. 1930), figure of the Mahjar^[2]
Francis Marrash (1836–1873)

H

I

J

K

Ka'b bin Zuhayr (6th century)
Kahlil Gibran (1883- 1931)
Khalil ibn Ahmad (718–791)
Khalil Mutran (d. 1949)
Kumait Ibn Zaid (679–743)
Kuthayyir (ca. 660-ca. 723)

L

Labīd (560–661)
Layla al-Akhyaliyyah, (d. 704)

M

Mahjoub Sharif (1948-2014)
Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008)
Mahmud Sami al-Barudi (d. 1904)
Mana Al Otaiba, (b. 1946)
Mansur al-Hallaj (d. 922)
Maram al-Masri (b. 1962)
Maruf al Rusafi
Maryana Marrash (1848–1919)
Masoud Juni (1938-1991)
Mohamed Ghozzi (20th century)
Mohammed Abdalbari (b. 1985)
Mohammed Bennis (1948-)
Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (d. 1708)
Mourid Barghouti (b. 1944)
Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi, (d. 973)
Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (1040–1095)
Muhammad ibn Ammar (c. 1031–1086)
Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, (d. 1998)
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri
Muhammed Almagut (1934–2006)

N

O

Orkhan Muyassar (1911?–1965), surrealist author^[3]

Q

al-Qarawi, Southern Mahjari^[1]
Qassim Haddad (b. 1948)
Qays ibn al-Mullawah, (d. 688)

S

Saadi Youssef (1934–2021)
Said Akl (1911–2014)
Salah Jaheen (1930–1986)
Salah Labaki (1906–1955)
Salman Masalha (b. 1953)
Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya (d. c. 560)
Samih al-Qasim (20th century)
Sidi Boushaki (1394–1453)

T

Tarafah ibn al 'Abd (6th century)
Tawfiq Sayigh (d. 1971), modernist proponent of prose poetry^[2]
Tawfiq Ziad (1929–1994)

U

'Umar Abu Rishah (1910–1990)
Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah (d. 712)

W

Waddah al-Yaman (d. 708)
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (994–1091)

Y

Yusuf Ghusub (b. 1900), Lebanese symbolist^[4]^[2]

Z

Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609)

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Jayyusi 1977, p. 362.
^ ^a ^b ^c Allen 2012, p. 70.
^ Jayyusi 1977, pp. 513–517.
^ Moreh 1976, p. 311.

Sources

Allen, R.M.A. (2012). "Arabic poetry". In Greene, Roland; et al. (eds.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 65–72. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (1977). Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry. Vol. 2. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-04920-7.
Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul, eds. (1998a). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 1. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18571-8.
Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul, eds. (1998b). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 2. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18572-6.
Moreh, S. (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry 1800–1970: The Development of its Forms and Themes under the Influence of Western Literature. Studies in Arabic Literature, 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-04795-6.