Maruf al rusafi biography

Iraqi poet and scholar (1975 – 1945)

Ma'ruf al-Rusafi
Ottoman Era photograph of al-Rusafi
Born	Ma'ruf bin Abd al-Ghani bin Mahmoud al-Jabbari al-Husseini 1875 Al-Rusafa, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Iraq
Died	16 March 1945(1945-03-16) (aged 69–70) Kingdom of Iraq
Occupation(s)	Poet, educationist, literary scholar
Style	Neo-Classical
Parent(s)	Abd al-Ghani Fathima

Ma'ruf bin Abdul Ghani al-Rusafi (Arabic: معروف الرصافي; 1875 – 16 March 1945) was an Iraqi poet, educationist and literary scholar.^[1][2] A political skeptic, al-Rusafi is regarded as a humanist, a social justice poet, and one of Iraq's national poets.

However, he is considered by many as a controversial figure in modern Iraqi literature^[3] due to his advocacy of freedom and opposition to imperialism.^[4] Because of this, he is known as the poet of freedom.^[5] As well as being known as one of the big three neo