Ibrāhīm, Ḥāfiẓ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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DeYoung, Terri
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Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm (1872-1932) was an important Egyptian revivalist (sometimes called "neo-classical") poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His work is commonly associated with that of other celebrated poets of his era, in particular Maḥmūd Sāmī al-Bārūdī (d. 1904) and Aḥmad Shawqī (d. 1932), and, later, with that of Khalīl Muṭrān (d. 1949). He wrote poems-often published first in newspapers and journals-commemorating important figures and events (often political) from the 1890s up until the time of his death. He consistently championed the