List of Muslim writers and poets
This is a list of notable Muslim writers and poets.
Writers and poets
A
- Aamer Hussein (Pakistani)
- Abbas el-Akkad (Egyptian)
- Abdul Rahman Munif (Saudi)
- Abdulah Sidran (Bosniak)
- Abdur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
- Abid Azad (Bangladeshi)
- Abul Ala Maududi (Maulana Maududi) (Pakistani)
- Abul Hasan (Bangladeshi)
- Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (Persian)
- Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (Bangladeshi)
- Abul Hussain (Bangladeshi)
- Abul Kalam Azad (Indian)
- Abu Nuwas (Arab Persian)
- Abu Tammam (Syrian Arab)
- Abu Zafar Obaidullah (Bangladeshi)
- Aga Shahid Ali (Kashmiri American)
- Ahmad Kutty (Indian 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-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq)
- Al Mahmud (Poet, Bangladesh)
- Allama Iqbal (Pakistani, Indian)
- Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistani)
- Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (Indian)
- Asma Gull Hasan (American)
- Azizul Haque
B
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
- Bande Ali Mia (Bangladeshi)
- Basharat Peer (Kashmiri)
- Begum Rokeya (Bangladesh)
- Belal Muhammad (Bangladeshi)
- Bilkisu Funtuwa
- Boonaa Mohammed
- Brother Dash
D
E
- Enamul Karim Nirjhar (Bangladeshi)
F
- Fareed Zakaria (Indian American)
- Faisal Kutty
- Farrukh Ahmed (Bangladeshi)
- Fatima Mernissi
- Fazal Shahabuddin (Bangladeshi)
- Fazlul Haque Amini
- Fazza
G
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
- Hanif Tarin
I
J
K
- Kabir (Indian Sufi)
- Kamal Uddin (British Bangladeshi)
- Kan Chun (also known as Mohamad Omar)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bangladesh)
- Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)
- Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi)
- Khurram Murad (Pakistan)
- Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijan)
- Kyar Ba Nyein
- Jamilah Kolocotronis (America)
L
M
- 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)
- 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)
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
- Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (Bangladesh)
- Muhammad Faizullah (Bangladesh)
- Muhammed Fethullah Gulen
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal (India)
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann
- Musa Ćazim Ćatić
N
O
R
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
- Sultan Bahoo (Sufi writer and poet from Punjab, Pakistan)
- Sufi Barkat Ali (Punjab, Pakistan)
- Shereen Malherbe (British/Palestinian)
- Syed Shamsul Huq (Bangladeshi)
- Syed Waliullah
T
- Taha Hussein (Egyptian)
- Tariq Rahman (Pakistan)
U
Y
- Yahiya Emerick (North America)
- Yunus Emre
- Yusuf al-Khal
- Yusuf Balasagun
- Yusuf Islahi (Maulana Yusuf Islahi)