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This is a list of Arabic language writers.
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This is a list of Arabic language writers.
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Zakariyya' al-Qazwini, also known as Qazvini, , was a cosmographer and geographer.
Abu Hafsa Yazid was a mawla, or servant, of the Umayyad Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakkam. Yazid's full name is not known; Abu Hafsa means "father of Hafsa".
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Zarʿ al-Fāsī is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as Rawd al-Qirtas, said to have been written at the instigation of Marinid Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II. His full nasab is sometimes given as ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Zar and sometimes as ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Abi Zar. The uncertainty about his name and authorship of the Rawd is caused by the many variant manuscripts in circulation since the Middle Ages. Very little is known about his life except that he was evidently a scholar at Fes.
With the spread of the printing press in Egypt and the Levant by the early 19th century, Egyptian, Lebanese and Syrian newspapers and magazines increased the publication of Arabicshort stories and sections of original or translated novels, influenced by the Western world. During that time, Arab writers referred to this type of creative writing as Riwaya (novel), Qissah (story), or Hikayah (tale) to denote more specific types of what is known today as modern Arabic novels and short stories.
The canon of work by Ibn Hazm, prolific and important Andalusian jurist, belletrist, and heresiographer is extensive. He was said to have written over 400 books.
Nāṣīf bin ʻAbd Allāh bin Nāṣīf bin Janbulāṭ bin Saʻd al-Yāzijī was an author at the times of the Ottoman Empire and father of Ibrahim al-Yaziji. He was one of the leading figures in the Nahda movement.
Nasib Arida was a Syrian-born poet and writer of the Mahjar movement and a founding member of the New York Pen League.
Abu al-hawl was an Arabic-language newspaper published from São Paulo, Brazil, from 1906 to 1941. The paper was published by Rashid al-Khuri.
Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī was an Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph, al-Mahdi, and the half-brother of the poet and musician Ulayya. Ibrahim was contemporary of Abbasid caliph al-Hadi, al-Rashid and his three nephews caliph al-Amin, al-Ma'mun, al-Mu'tasim.
Paul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.
Al-Khirniq bint Badr ibn Hiffān was an early Arabic elegiac poet. She was half-sister or aunt to the poet Tarafa ibn al'Abd.
Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī, born in Fes in 1858 and died in Fes in 1927 was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century.
Rajaz is a metre used in classical Arabic poetry. A poem composed in this metre is an urjūza. The metre accounts for about 3% of surviving ancient and classical Arabic verse.
As-Sayeh was an Arabic-language magazine founded in New York City by Abd al-Masih Haddad in 1912. It continued to be published until 1957. It presented the works of prominent Mahjari literary figures in the United States and became the "spokesman" of the Pen League which he co-founded with Nasib Arida in 1915 or 1916. Haddad published his own collection Hikayat al-Mahjar inside it in 1921.
Abd al-Masih Haddad was a Syrian writer of the Mahjar movement and journalist. His magazine As-Sayeh, started in 1912 and continued until 1957, presented the works of prominent Mahjari literary figures in the United States and became the "spokesman" of the Pen League which he co-founded with Nasib Arida in 1915 or 1916. His collection Hikayat al-Mahjar, which he published in 1921, extended "the scope of the readership of fiction" in modern Arabic literature according to Muhammad Mustafa Badawi.
Abu'l-Simt Marwan al-Akbar ibn Sulayman ibn Yahya ibn Abi Hafsa was a famous Arabic poet at the court of the Abbasid Caliphate during the second half of the 8th century. He was born to a non-Arab family.
Muhammad Ghunaymi Hilal (1917–1968) was an Egyptian scholar and literary critic. He is credited as the founder of Arabic comparative literature. Hilal is best known for his influential book Adab Al-Muqāran.