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Bayati, Abd al-Wahhab al- (–)
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (Abdul Wahab; also known as Abu Ali) was one of the most important Arabic poets of the twentieth century.
Bayati was a pioneer, breaking with traditional forms and classical Arabic and opening up new avenues for the development of poetry in Arabic.
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He and his fellow Iraqi poets Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (–), nazik al-mala'ika (–), and Buland al-Haydari (–), are considered the founders of modern Arabic poetry.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Bayati was born in in Baghdad and grew up in a traditional environment in the suburb of Bab al-Shaykh, where the shrine of the twelfth-century Sufi mystic Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani is situated.
He studied Arabic language and literature and graduated from Dar al-Mu'allimin al-'Aliya (Higher Teachers' Institute) in In the same year, he began teaching in public secondary schools. At the same time, he took part in editing the most popular Iraqi cultural magazine, Al-Thaqafa Al-Jadida (The new culture), a publicat