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Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī

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contribution to Islamic literature

In Islamic arts: The diaspora
…by “the poet of freedom” Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī (died 1945), and Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī (died 1936), whose satire “Thawrah fī al-Jaḥīm” (“Rebellion in Hell”) incurred the wrath of the traditionalists.
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