Nationality Bahraini Died August 29, 1981 Name Mullah al-Jamri | Known for poems Occupation khatib and poet Home town Bani Jamra | |
Mullah Attiya al-Jamri (Arabic: الملا عطية الجمري, b. 1899 – 29 August 1981) was a famous Bahraini khatib and poet.
Researcher Clive Holes translated two of Al-Jamri's poems into books, one of which was distributed to 11,000 teachers from different schools in the UK which means that the short story was read by over 330,000 students. Al-Jamri is well recognized in Bahrain, the Gulf and Iraq for his poems about Imam Hussain and for his unique methods of reading lamentation poems during the month of Muharram.
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