Abu'l-Ala al-Ma'arri (973-1057)
Abu'l-Ala al-Ma'arri was a famed arabic poet, letter writer and lecturer. Although blinded in his youth, he attended the lectures of the best contemporary teachers at Aleppo, Antioch and Tripoli. He was the last of a school of Syrian writers in Arabic, and was a great humanist, distinguished in his hatred of injustice, hypocrisy and superstition. His works include poems under the title of Saqt uz-Zand; later poems, the Luzumiyyat; and a collection of letters.
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