In the following list, poets who flourished mainly before the Mahdiyya are given. There is, however, some overlap with Chapter Twelve.
ʿAbd al-Qayyūm
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān W. Kūr (or Kawr)
al-Sharīf Abū ’L-Qāsim W. al-Kūqlī
Aḥmad W. ʿAbd al-Malik
Aḥmad b. Aḥmad Abī Sharīʿa b. Muḥammad Nūr b. Ḥasan b. al-Faqīh ʿAlī W. Abī Ḥalīma
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd al-Jaʿalī al-Saʿdābī
Aḥmad al-Qalʿa
Aḥmad W. Sulaymān
al-Sharīf Aḥmad Ṭāhā
Aḥmad W. Tamīm
Aḥmad Yūsuf Niʿma
ʿAlī W. Ḥalīb
ʿAṭāʾ al-Mannān
Bashīr al-Khayr
Bint al-Makkāwī
Ḥamza Faraḥ
Ḥanīn al-Miṣrī
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Ḥayātī Ḥamad
Ibn Shammāl
al-Māḥī …