Writers from Baghdad

al-Masʿūdī (full name , ), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus of the Arabs". A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic and universal), geography, natural science and philosophy, his celebrated magnum opus The Meadows of Gold () combines universal history with scientific geography, social commentary and biography.

10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer

Iraqi journalist (born 1979)

10th century Arab writer and geographer

Iraqi poet (1922–2007)

Muslim polymath

Iraqi American author, women's rights activist

Iraqi politician, academic and pan-Arab nationalist (1913–1973)

muhaddith, historian and Hafiz

British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster

Iraqi poet and philosopher (1863–1936)

Iraqi poet and Shia Muslim scholar (970 – 1015)

Turkish poet and writer (1884–1933)

10th-century Arab Muslim scholar

Al-Muḥāsibī () (781–857 CE) was a Muslim Arab, theologian, philosopher and ascetic. He is considered to be the founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy which combined Kalam and Sufism, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sirri Saqti.

Arabic poet of Abbasid era (836–896)

Iraqi architect (1926–2020)

Iraqi Islamic scholar and poet (1802–1854)

Iraqi poet

Iraqi physician

Iraqi rabbi

Iraqi-born Israeli author, novelist, civil rights activist

Iraqi poet (1926–1999)

Israeli writer

Iraqi-Israeli Hebrew poet

writer

poet

French film directorIraqi-French film director

Iraqi writer

Israeli writer/civil servant

Iraqi writer and film director

Iraqi writer

British historian (1926–1992)

Iraqi sociologist

Iraqi cookbook writer

philosopher and dissenter of Islam

11th-century Twelver Shi'ite scholar

Iraqi poet

historian

Israeli poet

Austrian author

'''Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Imrān ibn Mūsā ibn Sa'īd ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Marzubānī al-Khurāsānī''' () (c. 909 – 10 November 994), was a prolific author of adab, akhbar (news), history and ḥadīth (traditions). He lived all his life in his native city, Baghdad, although his family came originally from Khurāsān.

Iraqi journalist

Iraqi poet

Iraqi blogger

Canadian writer (1928-2021)

Iraqi archaeologist (1950–2011)

Iraqi architect

faqih, muhaddith and Iraqi Muslim scientist

Iraqi poet

Iraqi-born satirist, human-rights activist and writer

Muslim Baghdadi physician and poet

Iraqi poet

Iraqi writer and poet

French philosopher (1927–2009)

American political scientist and writer

Iraqi poet

Iraqi writer and poet

Iraqi-Belgian writer

Iraqi actor and film director