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Also Known As Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd ibn Sufyān ibn Mālik ibn Ḍubayʿah al-Bakrī ibn Wāʾil
Flourished 501 - 600
Imruʾ al-Qays
Arab poet
al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī
Arab poet
Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā
Arab poet
ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm
Arab poet
al-Aʿshā
Arab poet
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Ameen Rihani
Arab American author and political figure
al-Maʿarrī
Arab poet
al-Farazdaq
Islamic poet
Sermon being preached from a minbar, miniature from the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, 1223; in the National Library, Paris (MS Arabe 6094, fol. 93).
al-Ḥarīrī
Islamic scholar
Iliya Abu Madi
Arab writer
Jarīr
Arab poet
Ibn al-Fāriḍ
Arab poet
al-Buḥturī
Arab author
Abū Nuwās
Persian poet
al-Khansāʾ
Arab poet
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zuhayr
Arab poet
al-Hamdānī
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Ibn Qutaybah
Muslim author
al-Akhṭal
Umayyad poet

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