Abu Muslim al-Bahlani

Nasir ibn Salim al-Rawahi al-Bahlani, known as Abu Muslim, was born in Mahram, in the Wadi Bani Rawaha, and went to Zanzibar with his father in 1878. He spent his life there, became a judge under Sultan Hamad ibn Thuwaini and in 1911 brought out the newspaper al-Najah, regarded as the first Omani newspaper. An Ibadi jurist, he also wrote treatises on doctrine and law, among them a commentary on a treatise in verse by Imam al-Salimi. He died in Zanzibar in 1920 without having been able to return to Oman, as he wished.

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• Poetryديوان أبي مسلمAbu Muslim al-Bahlani · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature