ديوان مجد الإسلام

Ahmed Muharram is an Egyptian poet, and one of the great poets of nationalism and Islam. He was one of the advocates of the Islamic University and the Ottoman Caliphate, who inherited this call from the two Sheikhs Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abdu. He is also considered one of the advocates of social reform and national unity. He used to call Egyptians to tolerance and love among themselves. Ahmed Muharram Hassan Abdullah was born in the village of “Ibiya Al Hamra” in the Beheira Governorate in 1877 AD. He is from a family of Circassian origins. Muharram grew up in a governorate and was raised religiously. Literary texts. This religious upbringing was imbued with a national patriotic spirit; Where the poet experienced the national struggle of the two leaders, Mustafa Kamel and Saad Zaghloul, and was influenced by him, he did not conflict with the patriotic with the religious, and Muharram used to hold his poetry symposium every night at Al-Masiri coffee in Damanhour, and it was frequented by the thinkers of Alexandria and Beheira and its poets. Ahmed Muharram belongs to the school of revival and resurrection in Arabic poetry; It is that school that includes poets such as: Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi, Ahmed Shawky, and Hafez Ibrahim. He dedicated himself to defending the Islamic caliphate in front of the Levantine thinkers and writers who adopted the nationalist call at that time. Among the most prominent poetic works that this great poet was alone with is the “Diwan of Glory of Islam” or what he called: “The Islamic Iliad”; It is a poetic epic through which he portrayed the Islamic heroism in the biography of the Prophet, as he organized it in three thousand verses, and in an arranged chronological sequence. Ahmed Muharram died in 1945 AD, at the age of 68, after leaving a great poetic legacy.