Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Islam

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Hafez of Shiraz, Persian Poet
(c. 1325-c. 1390)

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Just the Facts:

Name: Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi
Known as: Hafez (or Hafiz) of Shiraz
Dates: c. 1325-c. 1390
Place: Shiraz, Iran
Language: Persian
Who he was: Persian poet known for his ghazals (lyric poems)

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Ibn Khaldun, North African Muslim Historian
(1332-1406)

sculpture by Patrick Morelli

Just the Facts:

Name: Abū Zayd 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadram
Known as: Ibn Khaldun
Birth: May 27, 1332, Tunis, Tunisia
Death: March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt
Language: Arabic
Who he was: North African Muslim historian; Muqaddimah (part I of a history of the world, Kitāb al-'Ibar)

Nasreddin Hodja, Turkish Holy Man
(died c. 1280)

Just the Facts:

Name: Nasreddin Hodja
Known by multiple names across many cultures
Dates: died c. 1280
Place: Turkey
Language: Turkish (?)
Who he was: Turkish Muslim holy man and funny man, subject of thousands of stories

Yunus Emre, Turkish Poet and Mystic
(1238-1320)

Just the Facts:

Name: Yunus Emre
Dates: 1238-1320
Place: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Who he was: Turkish poet and Sufi mystic; mystical poetry

Averroes, Andalusian Polymath
(1126-1198)

Averroes, detail of Raphael's
fresco The School of Athens

Just the Facts:

Name: Ibn Rushd
Known as: Averroes
Birth: April 14, 1126, Córdoba, Spain
Death: December 10, 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco
Language: Arabic
Who he was: Andalusian polymath; Tahafut al-tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence); Kitab fasl al-maqal (The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)

Nizami Ganjavi, Persian Poet
(1141-1209)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī
Known as: Nizami Ganjavi
Birth: Unknown Date, 1141, Ganja, Azerbaijan
Death: March 12, 1209, Ganja, Azerbaijan
Language: Persian
Who he was: Persian Muslim poet; Panj Ganj (The Five Jewels) or Khamsa, five long narrative poems

Attar of Nishapur, Persian Sufi Poet and Hagiographer (c. 1145-c. 1221)

Just the Facts:

Name: Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm
Known as: Attar of Nishapur, or simply Attar; also Farīd ud-Dīn
Dates: c. 1145-c. 1221
Place: Nishapur, Iran
Language: Persian
Who he was: Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer who wrote Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds); and Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Memorial of the Saints)

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian Man of Letters
(969-1007)

Scene from The Maqamat of al-Hamadani

Just the Facts:

Name: Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
Birth: Unknown Date, 969, Hamadan, Iran
Death: Unknown Date, 1007, Herat, Afghanistan
Language: Persian
Who he was: Persian man of letters who wrote the Maqamat al-Hamadhani (The Maqamat of al-Hamadani), 52 stories about a rogue named Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari

Ibn Hazm, Andalusian Muslim Poet
(994-1064)

Just the Facts:

Name: Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm
Known as: Ibn Hazm
Birth: November 7, 994, Córdoba, Caliphate of Córdoba (Spain)
Death: August 15, 1064, Montíjar, near Huelva, Taifa of Seville (Spain)
Language: Arabic
Who he was: Andalusian Muslim poet and philosopher who wrote Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove)

Ferdowsi, Persian Poet
(c. 940-1020)

Statue of Ferdowsi in Tehran

Just the Facts:

Name: Abu'l-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi
Known as: Ferdowsi
Date: c. 940-c. 1020
Place: Iran
Language: Persian
Who he was: Persian poet; wrote the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), the national epic of Greater Iran
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP

Muhammad, Arab Prophet of Islam
(c. 570-632)

Muhammad receives his first revelation from the angel Gabriel

Just the Facts:

Name: Muhammad
Birth: Unknown Date, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Death: June 8, 632, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Language: Arabic
Who he was: Arab messenger and prophet of Islam; received The Quran
Included in lists (What's This?): HC, LRP; Bloom

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