# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-ma-arri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:11.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-ma-arri"
name: "al-Ma'arri"
slug: "al-ma-arri"
description: "Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis, was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo. Al-Ma'arri's religious beliefs and philosophical worldview have been the subject of extensive historical and modern academic debate. While his critical poetry led detractors and early Western scholars to characterize him as a deist, freethinker, or one of the \"foremost atheists\" of his time, this categorization is highly disputed by other scholars and by Al-Ma'arri's own subsequent writings. In his self-defensive treatise Zajr al-Nabeh, al-Ma'arri explicitly affirmed his orthodox Islamic faith—including his belief in the Day of Judgment—and sought refuge in God from claims that his poetry was proof of atheism. In these texts, he clarified that his verses were not a rejection of Islam itself, but rather harsh critiques directed at the corruption of religious scholars, hypocritical practices, and the theological ignorance of his contemporaries."
tagline: "Medieval Arab poet and thinker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al-Ma%CA%BFarri_by_Khalil_Gibran_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "973"
deathDate: "1057-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.318904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump