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Ibrahim Al-Ahdab Al-Tarabulsi: Poet, writer, teacher and judge, his books were a beacon to those who came after him. Ibrahim bin Ali al-Ahdab al-Tarabulsi was born in 1826 AD in the city of Tripoli in Lebanon. He came from a family that respected science; Which encouraged him to acquire sciences and memorize the Holy Qur’an when he was not more than nine years old, and he studied at the “Al-Saqqaqi School” and “Al-Tawashiya School”. And when Ibrahim Al-Ahdab reached the age of twenty-two, he worked as a teacher, and his fame spread and he gained great fame. He also traveled to the capital of the Caliphate at that time, "Astana", where he met a number of its scholars, and sang a poem in which he praised Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan. Then his fame grew, and its resonance reached Said Jumblatt, the governor of the Chouf canton. He entrusted him in 1852 AD to be his advisor on legal issues and rulings, and he may have taught his children as well, but the political conditions did not enable him to settle there permanently. To ignite the fires of internal strife following the disputes that broke out between the “Druze” and “Maronite” in 1860 AD; He returned to Tripoli, then was appointed as a deputy in the Sharia Court and was promoted to the Court's Chief Book Officer. In 1872, he traveled to Egypt and met many of its scholars. Finally, he was appointed as a member of the Knowledge Division in 1888 AD. He has many authors and translators, including: “Fedra”, “Majnoon Bani Amer with his beloved Laila”, “Qais bin Dharih with Lubna”, “Urwa bin Hizam and his cousin Afra”, and “Jamil Buthaina and Kathir Azza”, and “Shirin with Khosra Abroiz,” “Al-Mu’tamid bin Abbad,” “Al-Wazir Ibn Zaydun with the birth of Al-Mustaqfi,” and “Yazid bin Abd al-Malik with his two maids, Hababa and Salama.” He also has three collections of poetry, one of which is Al-Nafh Al-Muski, and he was distinguished by his unique ability to organize poetry. Ibrahim al-Ahdab al-Tarabulsi died in Beirut in 1891 CE.