Abdul Ghafar al Akhras

Abdul Ghafar al-Akhras (Arabic: عبد الغفار الأخرس‎‎)( 1804 - 1873 ) titled al-Akhras (meaning dumb because he has slip), was an Ottoman poet and calligrapher, born in Mosul who moved to live in Baghdad. He attended the seminar of Mahmud al-Alusi (Mufti of Ottoman Iraq). During his life in Baghdad, al-Akhras was an enemy of "Omar bin Ramadan al-Hiti" another poet and calligrapher. They satirized each other.

Al-Akhras authored many famous jokes and proverbs. He wrote "Abdul Ghani Al Jamil's collection of poems". Al-Akhras, Mohammed Saeed Al-Habboubi,and Abdul Baqi Al-Omari are considered the best 19th century Ottoman-Iraqi poets. He was buried in Basra in 1875.