An Arab poet. The Arabic language is cooked to the Muslim faith and it is the uniting factor. Usually languages are called after the region, but in this case is the other way around.
I would understand that as someone from the Arab ethic group, the Arabic language and Islamic religion being separate (but overlapping) considerations.
Isn’t that the point here? This character is describing the person by mentioning the type of poetry they create. If I call someone a “rock singer”, I am not calling that person a rock; I am describing their art.
To be fair, it’s the same thing. No one is born Muslim. Islam is a sect of Yahwism that people are either forced into through child abuse, or join “willingly” to deal with substance abuse.
Nitpick: You (or the original creator) mean Muslim poets. “Islamic” describes ideas and the like, not people.
What do you call someone who writes Islamic poems then?
An Arab poet. The Arabic language is cooked to the Muslim faith and it is the uniting factor. Usually languages are called after the region, but in this case is the other way around.
I would understand that as someone from the Arab ethic group, the Arabic language and Islamic religion being separate (but overlapping) considerations.
(Rumi is best known for writing in Persian.)
You don’t need to be Arab to write an Islamic poem…
Isn’t that the point here? This character is describing the person by mentioning the type of poetry they create. If I call someone a “rock singer”, I am not calling that person a rock; I am describing their art.
He wrote poetry about Islam. Also he was Persian, not Arab. (In another comment you said to call him an Arab poet)
To be fair, it’s the same thing. No one is born Muslim. Islam is a sect of Yahwism that people are either forced into through child abuse, or join “willingly” to deal with substance abuse.
Internet atheists never cease to impress me.
What’s an atheist?
Someone who believes in the god Yatheh rather than Yahweh…
/Emoji for sarcasm
As an atheist, this made me chuckle