Sulayman al-Baruni

Sulayman al-Baruni was born around 1870 at Jadu, in the Nafusa mountains, into a Berber Ibadi family; his father was a jurist, poet and theologian. Trained at the Zitouna in Tunis and then at al-Azhar, he became a printer and journalist in Egypt, founding a press there in 1906 and launching a newspaper in 1908, and was elected the same year to the Ottoman parliament for the Jabal al-Gharbi. He raised the Berbers against the Italian invasion of 1911, was one of the leaders of the Tripolitanian republic, then, kept away from his lands by the colonial powers, advised the Sultan of Oman from 1924 until his death on 1 May 1940.

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• Poetryديوان سليمان البارونيSulayman al-Baruni · 1908not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain