List of Muslim writers and poets
This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims in literature.
Writers and poets
- Aamer Hussein
- Abbas el-Akkad
- Abdul Rahman Munif
- Abdulah Sidran
- Abul Ala Maududi (Maulana Maududi)
- Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami
- Abul Kalam Azad
- Abu Nuwas
- Abu Tammam
- Adnan Oktar
- Ahmad Kutty
- Ahmad Ibn Arabshah
- Akbar S. Ahmed
- Akhtaruzzaman Elias
- Al-Hallaj
- Al-Jahiz
- Allama Iqbal
- Anar Rzayev
- Asma Gull Hasan
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
- Bilkisu Funtuwa
- Brother Dash
- Dawud Wharnsby
- Daniel Moore
- Fareed Zakaria
- Faisal Kutty
- Fatima Mernissi
- Ghulam Ahmed Parvez, Lahore, Pakistan [1]
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- Hafiz
- Hakim Bey
- Hashim Amir Ali, Hyderabad, India
- Hasanuddin Ahmed, Hyderabad, India [2]
- Humayun Ahmed
- Humayun Kabir
- Huseyn Javid
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Irving Karchmar
- Jafar Jabbarly
- Jalaluddin Umri
- Joe Flizzow
- Kabir
- Kan Chun, also known as Mohamad Omar
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Khaled Hosseini
- Khurram Murad
- Khurshidbanu Natavan
- Kyar Ba Nyein
- Jamilah Kolocotronis
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Mak Dizdar
- Malique Ibrahim
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Martin Lings
- Maryam Sullivan
- Maung Thaw Ka
- Mawlana Faizani
- Meša Selimović
- Michael Wolfe
- Minyoon Shah Inat (Nasarpur, Sindh, Pakistan)
- Mir Mosharraf Hossain
- Mirza Abul Fazl, Allahabad, India
- Mirza Fatali Akhundov
- Mirza Alakbar Sabir
- Morteza Motahari
- Mohammed Mozammel Haque,West Bengal India (1860-1933)
- Md.Azizul Haque
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
- Muhammed Fethullah Gulen
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann
- Musa Ćazim Ćatić
- Naim Frashëri
- Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988)
- Nezami Aruzi
- Nilima Ibrahim
- Nizami Ganjavi
- Omar Khayyám
- Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006)
- Pamela Taylor
- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
- Rumi
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
- Sa'adi
- Saffarzadeh, Tahereh
- Safvet-beg Bašagić
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindh, Pakistan)
- Shaikh Ayaz (Sindh, Pakistan)
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal
- Soheib Bencheikh
- Stephen Schwartz
- Sultan Bahoo (Sufi writer and poet from Punjab, Pakistan)
- Sufi Barkat Ali (Punjab, Pakistan)
- Syed Qasim Mahmood, encyclopedist of Pakistan
- Syed Waliullah
- Tasnim Nazeer- Journalist and Writer
- Taha Hussein
- Taslima Nasrin
- U Shwe Yoe, a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.
- US Moinuddin, Indian Author, Educationist, Motivational Speaker, Environmentalist.
- Uzeyir Hajibeyov
- Yahiya Emerick
- Yusuf al-Khal
- Yusuf Balasagun
- Yusuf Islahi (Maulana Yusuf Islahi)
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
- Zaid Shakir
- Zar Wali Khan
- Zuko Džumhur
See also