Poets from the Abbasid Caliphate

8th-century classical Arabic poet

'''Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri (; December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis''', was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo (in present day Syria). Because of his antireligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time", although his worldview was closer to deism. However, in his defensive treatise Zajr al-Nabeh (The Repelling of the Barker)—a manuscript edited and published in 1965—al-Ma'arri explicitly identified himself as a faithful Muslim and systematically refuted the accusations of heresy leveled

Arab historian, writer, poet and musicologist (897–967)

thumb|An Arabic manuscript with the Diwan of Mutanabbi (Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi), by the scribal scholar Abu-I-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn al-Hussain, c. 1300 AD, origin unknown Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( – 965 AD), commonly known as al-Mutanabbi (), was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial.

'''Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Wathiq bi'Llah (; 18 April 81210 August 847), commonly known by his regnal name al-Wathiq bi'Llah''' (), was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 842 until his death in 847.

Muslim Arab poet of Abbasid era (died 850)

Persian Islamic polymath (died 895)

Iraqi lexicographer, philologist and poet (718 – 786 CE)

Arab poet of the Abbasid period (c.748-c.828)

Arab poet and scholar (1054–1122)

Sufi poet

Arab poet

Abbasid prince, poet and politician (861–908)

Al-Asmaʿi (, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī ; –828/833), or Asmai was an Arab philologist and one of three leading Arabic grammarians of the Basra school. At the court of the Abbasid caliph, Hārūn al-Rashīd, as polymath and prolific author on philology, poetry, genealogy, and natural science, he pioneered zoology studies in animal-human anatomical science. He compiled an important poetry anthology, the ''Asma'iyyat'', and was credited with composing an epic on the life of Antarah ibn Shaddad. A protégé of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi and Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', he was a contemporary and

Persian poet who wrote in Arabic (714–783)

Al-Walīd ibn Ubaidillah Al-Buḥturī () (821–97 AD; 206–84 AH) was an Arab poet born at Manbij in Islamic Syria, between Aleppo and the Euphrates. Like Abū Tammām (), he was of the tribe of Tayy, from the Buhturids.

Arab Abbasid poet (750–809)

Hamdanid dynasty prince and poet (932–968)

Persian Arab grammarian and linguist (728–825)

Iraqi poet

Arab poet and linguist

Arabic poet of Abbasid era (836–896)

singer,Poet of Abbasid period

Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet (779–839)

Iraqi poet

Abbasid governor and police chief of Baghdad from 851 to 867

Arab poet

9th-century Arab scholar, poet and grammarian

Iraqi poet

Iraqi poet during abbasid era

9th-century Abbasid official

Arab Poet and calligrapher

Ghaznavid poet

Shāriyah (, born in al-Basra; died c. 870 CE) was an ‘Abbasid qayna (enslaved singing-girl), who enjoyed a prominent place in the court of Al-Wathiq (r. 842–847).

Iranian poet

9th-century Persian poet and Abbasid courtier

Abbasid-era Arab poet

wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Amin

Iraqi poet

12th-century Arabic poet of Later Abbasid Era

Iraqi poet

Abbasi poet

Iraqi poet

Medieval arabic poet

9th-century Abbasid senior courtier

Iraqi poet

Iraqi poet

last member of the Banu'l-Maghribi, a family of statesmen who served in several Muslim courts