4 Lessons From The Badass Life of Al Ma’arri (973-1057AD)
Philosopher, writer, and all around forward-thinker
5 min readSep 17, 2020
Abu al-Alaa al-Ma’arri — or al-Ma’arri, for short — was born in a city called Maarat al-Numan in 973AD. This man, a person I was shocked to have never learned about in school, was one of the greatest Classical Arab poets to ever live, and let alone to come out of the 11th Century.
