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Title: Hafiz Ibrahim


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Hafiz Ibrahim
  • (1871-1932)

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  • Egyptian-Turkish
  • Army officer (1891) - Sudan (as exile) - court
    martialled (1900)
  • Best -known neoclassicist after Shauqi
  • Related to the common people (people's poet)
  • Al-Ahram newspaper
  • Muhammad Abduh - intellectual and political
    leading figures
  • Political/revolutionary poetry
  • Panegyric, elegy (cold, imitative), description,
    love and wine

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Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
  • 1863-1936

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  • Kurdish origin
  • Traditional religious education
  • Masterd Turkish and Persian
  • Father of modern Iraqi poetry - not a
    pre-romantic
  • Reacted strongly against artificiality, mental
    sterility, and imitation
  • Description of the nature
  • People suffering
  • Philosophical and metphysical
  • Al-shi'r al-mursal

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  • Ma'ruf al-Rasafi
  • 1875-1945

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  • Humble origin
  • Koranic school - military - religious
  • Held post in education, politics and journalism
  • Social and political poetry
  • Accused of heresy
  • Simplified the language of Iraqi poetry
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