List of Muslim writers and poets
This is a list of notable Muslim writers and poets.
Writers and poets
A
- Arshadul Qadri (Indian)
 - Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Indian)
 - Aamer Hussein (Pakistani)
 - Abbas el-Akkad (Egyptian)
 - Abdul Rahman Munif (Saudi)
 - Abdullahi dan Fodio (Nigerian)
 - Abdullah Khan (Indian)
 - Abdulah Sidran (Bosniak)
 - Abid Azad (Bangladeshi)
 - Abul Ala Maududi (Maulana Maududi) (Pakistani)
 - Abul Hasan (Bangladeshi)
 - Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (Persian)
 - Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal (Bangladeshi)
 - Abul Kalam Azad (Indian)
 - Abu Nuwas (Arab Persian)
 - Abu Tammam (Syrian Arab)
 - Abu Zafar Obaidullah (Bangladeshi)
 - Aga Shahid Ali (Kashmiri American)
 - Ahmad Ibn Arabshah (Syrian Arab)
 - Ahmed Ali (Pakistani)
 - Ahmed Sofa (Bangladesh)
 - Ahsan Habib (Bangladeshi)
 - Akbar S. Ahmed (Pakistani)
 - Ayad Akhtar (Pakistani American)
 - Akhtaruzzaman Elias (Bangladeshi)
 - Alaol (modern-day Bangladeshi)
 - Al-Hallaj (Persian Sufi)
 - Al-Hariri of Basra (Basra, Iraq)
 - Al-Mutanabbi
 - Al-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq)
 - Al Mahmud (Poet, Bangladesh)
 - Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistani)
 - Aqeel-ul-Gharavi (Indian)
 - Asma Gull Hasan (American)
 - Azizul Haque (Indian)
 
B
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
 - Bande Ali Mia (Bangladeshi)
 - Basharat Peer (Kashmiri)
 - Begum Rokeya (Bangladesh)
 - Belal Muhammad (Bangladeshi)
 - Bilkisu Funtuwa
 - Boonaa Mohammed
 - Brother Dash
 
D
E
- Enamul Karim Nirjhar (Bangladeshi)
 
F
- Ferdowsi
 - Fareed Zakaria (Indian American)
 - Faisal Kutty
 - Farrukh Ahmed (Bangladeshi)
 - Fatima Mernissi
 - Fazal Shahabuddin (Bangladeshi)
 - Fazlul Haque Amini
 - Fazza
 
G
H
- Hafiz
 - Hafiz Rashid Khan (Bangladeshi)
 - Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktoum
 - Hanifa Deen
 - Hasan Hafizur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
 - Hashim Amir Ali (Hyderabad, India)
 - Helal Hafiz (Bangladeshi)
 - Humayun Ahmed
 - Humayun Azad (Bangladeshi)
 - Humayun Kabir
 - Huseyn Javid
 
I
J
- Jafar Jabbarly
 - Jalaluddin Umri
 - Jamila al-'Alayili
 - Jasimuddin (Bangladeshi)
 - Joel Hayward
 
K
- Kabir (Indian Sufi)
 - Muhammad Mojlum Khan (Bangladesh-born British)
 - Kan Chun (also known as Mohamad Omar)
 - Kaykobad (Bangladesh)(also known as Kazem Ali Quereshi)
 - Kazi Kader Newaj (Bangladesh)
 - Kazi Nazrul Islam (India /Bangladesh)
 - Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)
 - Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi)
 - Khurram Murad (Pakistan)
 - Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijan)
 - Kyar Ba Nyein (Myanmar)
 
- Jamilah Kolocotronis (America)
 
L
M
- Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (India)
 - Mahmoud Darwish
 - Mak Dizdar
 - Malique Ibrahim
 - Marmaduke Pickthall
 - Martin Lings
 - Maryam Sullivan
 - Maung Thaw Ka
 - Mawlana Faizani
 - May Ziadeh
 - Meša Selimović
 - Melody Moezzi
 - Michael Wolfe
 - Michael Muhammad Knight
 - Minyoon Shah Inat (Nasarpur, Sindh, Pakistan)
 - Mir Mosharraf Hossain
 - Mirza Abul Fazl (Allahabad, India)
 - Mirza Fatali Akhundov
 - Mirza Alakbar Sabir
 - Mizanur Rahman Sayed (Bangladesh)
 - Modibbo Raji (Nigerian)
 - Mohja Kahf
 - Mona Eltahawy
 - Morteza Motahari
 - Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bangladesh)
 - Motiur Rahman Mollik (Bangladeshi)
 - Mohammed Mozammel Haque (West Bengal India; 1860-1933)
 - Mozid Mahmud (Bangladeshi)
 - Mohammad Anwar Shopiani (India)
 - Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
 - Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (Bangladesh)
 - Muhammed Bello (Nigerian)
 - Muhammed Fethullah Gulen
 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal (British India)
 - Murad Wilfred Hofmann
 - Musa Ćazim Ćatić
 
N
O
R
S
- Sa'adi
 - Saheb Qibla Fultali
 - Saffarzadeh, Tahereh
 - Safvet-beg Bašagić
 - Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindh, Pakistan)
 - Shah Ahmad Shafi
 - Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bangladeshi)
 - Shamsur Rahman (Bangladeshi)
 - Shaheed Quaderi (Bangladeshi)
 - Shahnaz Bashir (Kashmir)
 - Shaikh Ayaz (Sindh, Pakistan)
 - U Shwe Yoe (a Burmese Muslim named U Ba Ga Lay. He was also a cartoonist, actor, comedian and dancer.)
 - Sikdar Aminul Haq (Bangladeshi)
 - Soheib Bencheikh
 - Stephen Schwartz
 - Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (British spoken word poet, writer, and speaker)
 - Sultan Bahoo (Sufi writer and poet from Punjab, Pakistan)
 - Sufi Barkat Ali (Punjab, Pakistan)
 - Syed Shamsul Huq (Bangladeshi)
 - Syed Waliullah
 
T
- Taha Hussein (Egyptian)
 - Tariq Rahman (Pakistan)
 
U
* Usman dan Fodio (Nigerian)
Y
- Yahiya Emerick (North America)
 - Yunus Emre
 - Yusuf al-Khal
 - Yusuf Balasagun