Mullah Attiya al-Jamri | |
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Mullah Attiya al-Jamri to the right | |
Born | c. 1899 |
Died | 29 August 1981 |
Nationality | Bahraini |
Occupation(s) | khatib and poet |
Known for | poems |
Mullah Attiya al-Jamri ( Arabic: الملا عطية الجمري, c.1899 – 29 August 1981) was a Bahraini khatib and poet.
Researcher Clive Holes translated two of Al-Jamri's poems into books, one of which was distributed to 11,000 teachers from different schools in the UK which meant that the short story was read by over 330,000 students. [1] Al-Jamri is well recognized in Bahrain, the Gulf and Iraq for his poems about Imam Hussain and for his unique methods of reading lamentation poems during the month of Muharram.