• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    Nitpick: You (or the original creator) mean Muslim poets. “Islamic” describes ideas and the like, not people.

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        An Arab poet. The Arabic language is cooked to the Muslim faith and it is the uniting factor. Usually languages are called after the region, but in this case is the other way around.

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          I would understand that as someone from the Arab ethic group, the Arabic language and Islamic religion being separate (but overlapping) considerations.

          (Rumi is best known for writing in Persian.)

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      Isn’t that the point here? This character is describing the person by mentioning the type of poetry they create. If I call someone a “rock singer”, I am not calling that person a rock; I am describing their art.

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      He wrote poetry about Islam. Also he was Persian, not Arab. (In another comment you said to call him an Arab poet)