Mulla Hasan al-Bazzaz

ملا حسن البزاز

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One of the best-known poets of Mosul, who studied with several of its scholars.

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Poet
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Sunni
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar · Abdyl Frashëri · Abu Bakar of Johor · Abd al-Hadi Naja al-Abyari · Shihab al-Din al-Halawani, Ahmad ibn Ahmad

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Overview

Mulla Hasan al-Bazzaz, one of the best-known poets of Mosul, who studied under a number of its scholars. He was born in 1845 CE (1261 AH) and died in 1887 CE (1305 AH). 1

The names of his teachers and his poetry need an additional source.

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Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Mulla Hasan al-Bazzaz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mulla-hasan-al-bazzaz/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.