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