Maruf al-Rusafi

Maruf al-Rusafi was born in Baghdad in 1875, into a Kurdish and Arab family. He left the military school for religious schools, followed for twelve years the teaching of the scholar Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi and taught Arabic in Baghdad. Having left for Istanbul in 1908, he taught there, wrote for a newspaper and was elected in 1912 a deputy in the Ottoman parliament. After a stay in Jerusalem, where he taught, he returned to Baghdad in 1921, launched a newspaper there, was an inspector of education and then a professor of Arabic, and sat several times in the Iraqi parliament. He died in Baghdad in 1945.

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• Poetryديوان الرصافيMaruf al-Rusafi · 1910not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain