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and tried to excommunicate him, citing a controversial line from one of his poems: "Allah has become silent ash, a terror in the hands of executioners, a field that sprouts prayer beads and turbans." The poet's defenders pointed to other poems he wrote, such as "A Letter on Allah" (1961), as evidence
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Al-Maqaleh died in Sana'a on 28 November 2022, at the age of 85.
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From the Stanza to the Poem: A Study of Yemen’s New Poetry
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Writing with the
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The Book of Bilqis and Poems to the Waters of Grief, 2004
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From 1982 to 2001, Al-Maqaleh served as the
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Al-Maqaleh was born in 1937 in the village of Maqaleh in
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Abdul-Aziz Al-Maqaleh, one of Yemen's greatest poets
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Literary and Intellectual Studies (translated), 2005
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