Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi
Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi (1897 – 27 June 1977) was an Iraqi poet, "a poet of extreme simplicity of style and a poetic diction that often approximates to ordinary speech". Ahmad al-Safi was born in Najaf to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother. From 1920 to 1927 he left Iraq for Iran.
Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi
- Born
- 1897
- Died
- 1977
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages
- Arabic
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Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi (1897 – 27 June 1977) was an Iraqi poet, "a poet of extreme simplicity of style and a poetic diction that often approximates to ordinary speech". Ahmad al-Safi was born in Najaf to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother. From 1920 to 1927 he left Iraq for Iran.
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He met Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi in 1927, who declared he was proud to have "discovered" him. In 1929, illness drove him to leave Iraq for a milder climate in Syria. Involved in resistance against the British colonial occupation since the 1920s, he was arrested for his anti-colonial stance in 1941. In 1976 he returned to Iraq, having been wounded in the Lebanese Civil War. He died on the 27 June 1977. In November 2011 plans were announced to erect a memorial to him in Najaf.
• Al-Amwāj [The Waves], 1932
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- 1.Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry. BRILL. 193–7. 1977. 978-90-04-04920-8.
- 2.Dorigo, Rosella. Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature: schools and journals : proceedings of the IV Emtar Congress (Venice 21-24 April 1999). Herder. 179. 2000.
- 3.Dorigo, Rosella. Literary innovation in modern Arabic literature: schools and journals : proceedings of the IV Emtar Congress (Venice 21-24 April 1999). Herder. 179. 2000.
- 4.R. Rezaei, Al-Safi Al-Najafi and poetry in prison , Daneshnameh 81 (Summer 2011), pp.81-102
- 5.Centre d'études pour le monde arabe moderne. Arab society, 1978-79: reflections and realities. Dar el-Mashreq. 245. 1988. 978-2-7214-5802-5.
- 6.Library of Congress Name Authority File
- 7.Najaf Plans Memorials for Jawahiri, al-Najafi and Mustafa Jawad, 2 November 2011
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