# List of Muslim writers and poets

This is a list of notable Muslim writers and poets.

## Writers and poets
### A

* Arshadul Qadri (Indian)
* Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Indian)
* Aamer Hussein (Pakistani)
* Abbas el-Akkad (Egyptian)
* Abdul Rahman Munif (Saudi)
* Abdullahi dan Fodio (Nigerian)
* Abdullah Khan (Indian)
* Abdulah Sidran (Bosniak)
* Abid Azad (Bangladeshi)
* Abul Ala Maududi (Maulana Maududi) (Pakistani)
* Abul Bashar ( Indian)
* Abul Hasan (Bangladeshi)
* Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (Persian)
* Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (Bangladeshi)
* Abul Kalam Azad (Indian)
* Abu Nuwas (Arab Persian)
* Abu Tammam (Syrian Arab)
* Abu Zafar Obaidullah (Bangladeshi)
* Afsar Amed (Indian)
* Aga Shahid Ali (Kashmiri American)
* Ahmad Ibn Arabshah (Syrian Arab)
* Ahmed Ali (Pakistani)
* Ahmed Sofa (Bangladesh)
* Ahsan Habib (Bangladeshi)
* Akbar S. Ahmed (Pakistani)
* Ayad Akhtar (Pakistani American)
* Akhtaruzzaman Elias (Bangladeshi)
* Alaol (modern-day Bangladeshi)
* Al-Hallaj (Persian Sufi)
* Al-Hariri of Basra (Basra, Iraq)
* Al-Mutanabbi
* Al-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq)
* Al Mahmud (Poet, Bangladesh)
* Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistani)
* Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (Indian)
* Asma Gull Hasan (American)
* Azizul Haque (Indian)

### B

* Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
* Bande Ali Mia (Bangladeshi)
* Basharat Peer (Kashmiri)
* Begum Rokeya (Bangladesh)
* Belal Muhammad (Bangladeshi)
* Bilkisu Funtuwa
* Boonaa Mohammed
* Brother Dash

### D

* Dawud Wharnsby
* Dalia Mogahed
* Daniel Moore

### E

* Enamul Karim Nirjhar (Bangladeshi)

### F

* Ferdowsi
* Fareed Zakaria (Indian American)
* Faisal Kutty
* Farrukh Ahmed (Bangladeshi)
* Fatima Mernissi
* Fazal Shahabuddin (Bangladeshi)
* Fazlul Haque Amini
* Fazza

### G

* G. Willow Wilson
* Ghalib
* Ghulam Azam (Bangladesh)
* Ghulam Mustafa Khan
* Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

### H

* Hafiz
* Hafiz Rashid Khan (Bangladeshi)
* Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktoum
* Hanifa Deen
* Hasan Hafizur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
* Hashim Amir Ali (Hyderabad, India)
* Helal Hafiz (Bangladeshi)
* Humayun Ahmed
* Humayun Azad (Bangladeshi)
* Humayun Kabir
* Huseyn Javid

### I

* Ibn al-Nafis
* Ibn Quzman
* Imtiaz Dharker

### J

* Jafar Jabbarly
* Jalaluddin Umri
* Jamila al-'Alayili
* Jasimuddin (Bangladeshi)
* Joel Hayward

### K

* Kabir (Indian Sufi)
* Muhammad Mojlum Khan (Bangladesh-born British)
* Kan Chun (also known as Mohamad Omar)
* Kaykobad (Bangladesh)(also known as Kazem Ali Quereshi)
* Kazi Kader Newaj (Bangladesh)
* Kazi Nazrul Islam (India /Bangladesh)
* Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)
* Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi)
* Khurram Murad (Pakistan)
* Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijan)
* Kyar Ba Nyein (Myanmar)
* Jamilah Kolocotronis (America)

### L

* Leila Aboulela

### M

* Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (India)
* Mahmoud Darwish
* Mak Dizdar
* Malique Ibrahim
* Marmaduke Pickthall
* Martin Lings
* Maryam Sullivan
* Maung Thaw Ka
* Mawlana Faizani
* May Ziadeh
* Meša Selimović
* Melody Moezzi
* Michael Wolfe
* Michael Muhammad Knight
* Minyoon Shah Inat (Nasarpur, Sindh, Pakistan)
* Mir Mosharraf Hossain
* Mirza Abul Fazl (Allahabad, India)
* Mirza Fatali Akhundov
* Mirza Alakbar Sabir
* Mizanur Rahman Sayed (Bangladesh)
* Modibbo Raji (Nigerian)
* Mohja Kahf
* Mona Eltahawy
* Morteza Motahari
* Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bangladesh)
* Motiur Rahman Mollik (Bangladeshi)
* Mohammed Mozammel Haque (West Bengal India; 1860-1933)
* Mozid Mahmud (Bangladeshi)
* Mohammad Anwar Shopiani (India)
* Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
* Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (Bangladesh)
* Muhammed Bello (Nigerian)
* Muhammed Fethullah Gulen
* Sir Muhammad Iqbal (British India)
* Murad Wilfred Hofmann
* Musa Ćazim Ćatić

### N

* Naim Frashëri
* Na'ima B Robert
* Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988)
* Ali Akbar Natiq
* Nezami Aruzi
* Nilima Ibrahim
* Nizami Ganjavi
* Nouman Ali Khan
* Nimah Ismail Nawwab

### O

* Omar Khayyám
* Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006)

### R

* Rajaa al-Sanea
* Ian Iqbal Rashid
* Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
* Rumi
* Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

### S

* Sa'adi
* Saheb Qibla Fultali
* Saffarzadeh, Tahereh
* Safvet-beg Bašagić
* Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindh, Pakistan)
* Shah Ahmad Shafi
* Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bangladeshi)
* Shamsur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
* Shaheed Quaderi (Bangladeshi)
* Shahnaz Bashir (Kashmir)
* Shaikh Ayaz (Sindh, Pakistan)
* U Shwe Yoe (a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.)
* Sikdar Aminul Haq (Bangladeshi)
* Soheib Bencheikh
* Stephen Schwartz
* Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (British spoken word poet, writer, and speaker)
* Sultan Bahoo (Sufi writer and poet from Punjab, Pakistan)
* Sufi Barkat Ali (Punjab, Pakistan)
* Syed Mustafa Siraj (Indian)
* Syed Shamsul Huq (Bangladeshi)
* Syed Waliullah

### T

* Taha Hussein (Egyptian)
* Tariq Rahman (Pakistan)

### U

* Uzeyir Hajibeyov

### Y

* Yahiya Emerick (North America)
* Yunus Emre
* Yusuf al-Khal
* Yusuf Balasagun

### Z

* Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
* Zaid Shakir
* Zoubeida Bittari
* Zuko Džumhur