List of Shi'a Muslims - Poets and Writers

Poets and Writers

• Al-Farazdaq Arab poet
• Kuthayyir -Arab poet
• Kumait Ibn Zaid -Arab poet
• Abu Nuwas renowned classical Arabic and Persian poets
• Abu-l-'Atahiya -Arab poet
• Abu Tammam -Arab poet
• Ibn al-Rumi -Arab poet
• Al-Mutanabbi, regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Arabic language
• Abu Firas al-Hamdani, writer and member of the noble family of the Hamdanid
• Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani Arab poet and writer
• Khalil ibn Ahmad Arab poet and writer
• Nasir Khusraw Persian poet, philosopher and traveler
• Mirza Ghalib renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet, writer, and philosopher
• Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai - He translated Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic.
• Mir Anis - classical Urdu poet and master of the elegies in honor of the tragedy of Karbala known as Marsiya which was instrumental in the propagation of azadari, or mourning of Muharram in South Asia
• Mirza Dabeer - Urdu poet and master of the Marsiya, contemporary, friend, and rival of Mir Anis
• Safi al-din al-Hilli, 1278-c.1349, Iraqi poet
• Fuzûlî Iraqi Turkoman poet, writer and thinker
• Muzaffar al-Nawwab Iraqi poet
• Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri Iraqi poet
• Abdullah Al-Baradouni Yemeni writer and poet
• Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh Bahrani poet
• Qassim Haddad Bahrani poet, researcher, writer
• Ali Al Jallawi Bahrani poet
• Badawi al-Jabal Syrian poet
• Qurratulain Hyder - female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature"
• Adunis Syrian poet and writer
• Muhammed Almagut Syrian poet and writer
• Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Iraqi poet
• Nazik Al-Malaika, influential contemporary Iraqi female poet
• Bint al-Huda -Iraqi educator and political activist.
• Hasan Zyko Kamberi Albanian poet and writer.
• Naim Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
• Sami Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
• Abdyl Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
• Azadar vijapura india poet and writer.