List of Muslim writers and poets

This is a list of notable Muslim 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)
 * [[umar azad] (Indian 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

 * Dawud Wharnsby
 * Dalia Mogahed
 * Daniel Moore

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

 * G. Willow Wilson


 * Ghalib
 * Ghulam Azam (Bangladesh)
 * Ghulam Mustafa Khan
 * Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

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
 * Husain A. Nuri (USA)
 * Huseyn Javid

I

 * Ibn al-Nafis
 * Ibn Quzman
 * Imtiaz Dharker

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 (Bangladesh)
 * Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)
 * Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi)
 * Khurram Murad (Pakistan)
 * Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijan)
 * Kyar Ba Nyein (Myanmar)


 * Jamilah Kolocotronis (America)

L

 * Leila Aboulela

M

 * Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (India)
 * Mahmoud Darwish
 * Mak Dizdar
 * Malique Ibrahim
 * Marjan Naderi
 * 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

 * Naim Frashëri
 * Na'ima B Robert
 * Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988)
 * Ali Akbar Natiq
 * Nezami Aruzi
 * Nilima Ibrahim
 * Nizami Ganjavi
 * Nouman Ali Khan
 * Nimah Ismail Nawwab

O

 * Omar Khayyám
 * Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006)

R

 * Rajaa al-Sanea
 * Raamish Siddiqui
 * Ian Iqbal Rashid
 * Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
 * Rumi
 * Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

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)
 * Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Y

 * Yahiya Emerick (North America)
 * Yunus Emre
 * Yusuf al-Khal
 * Yusuf Balasagun

Z

 * Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
 * Zaid Shakir
 * Zoubeida Bittari
 * Zuko Džumhur