Mullah Attiya al-Jamri explained

Mullah Attiya al-Jamri
Birth Date:c. 1899
Death Date:29 August 1981
Nationality:Bahraini
Known For:poems
Occupation:khatib and poet

Mullah Attiya al-Jamri (Arabic: الملا عطية الجمري, c.1899 – 29 August 1981) was a 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 meant that the short story was read by over 330,000 students.[1] 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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  1. http://www.alwasatnews.com/mobile/news-665881.html "هولز: ترجمتي لقصيدتين للملا عطية الجمري تلقى رواجاً كبيراً في المدارس البريطانية"