Abbasid
- Abū Dulāma (d. 161 AH / 778 CE)
- Bashshār ibn Burd (96–168 AH / 714–784 CE)
- al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad (100–170 AH / 718–786 CE)
- al-Sayyid al-Ḥimyarī (105–173 AH / 723–789 CE)
- Khalaf al-Aḥmar (d. c. 180 AH / 796 CE)
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak (118–181 AH / 736–797 CE)
- Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣa (105–182 AH / 723–798 CE)
- al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Aḥnaf (d. c. 192 AH / 808 CE)
- Abū al-Shīṣ (d. 196 AH / 811 CE)
- Abū Nuwās (d. c. 198 AH / 813 CE)
- Rabīʿa al-Raqqī (d. c. 198 AH / 813 CE)
- Abū al-Shamaqmaq (d. c. 200 AH / 815 CE)
- al-Shāfiʿī (150–204 AH / 767–820 CE)
- Muslim ibn al-Walīd (d. 208 AH / 823 CE)
- ʿUlayya bint al-Mahdī (160–210 AH / 777–825 CE)
- Abū al-ʿAtāhiya (130–211 AH / 748–826 CE)
- ʿAlī ibn Jabala (160–213 AH / 776–828 CE)
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim al-Bāhilī (d. c. 215 AH / 830 CE)
- al-Aṣmaʿī (122–216 AH / 740–831 CE)
- Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī (162–224 AH / 779–839 CE)
- Abū Tammām (188–231 AH / 803–845 CE)
- Ibn al-Zayyāt (173–233 AH / 789–847 CE)
- Dīk al-Jinn (161–235 AH / 777–849 CE)
- ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Muʿadhdhal (d. c. 240 AH / 854 CE)
- Diʿbil al-Khuzāʿī (148–246 AH / 765–860 CE)
- ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm (188–249 AH / 803–863 CE)
- Ibn al-Rūmī (221–283 AH / 836–896 CE)
- al-Buḥturī (206–284 AH / 821–897 CE)
- Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Nūrī (d. 295 AH / 907 CE)
- Ibn al-Muʿtazz (247–296 AH / 861–908 CE)
- Sumnūn al-Muḥibb (d. c. 298 AH / 910 CE)
- Yamūt ibn al-Muzarraʿ (d. 304 AH / 916 CE)
- al-Ḥallāj (244–309 AH / 858–922 CE)
- al-Khubzaruzzī (d. c. 317 AH / 929 CE)
- Ibn Durayd (223–321 AH / 838–933 CE)
- Jaḥẓa al-Barmakī (224–324 AH / 839–936 CE)
- al-Mutanabbī (303–354 AH / 915–965 CE)
- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī (284–356 AH / 897–967 CE)
- Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī (320–357 AH / 932–968 CE)
- Kushājim (d. c. 360 AH / 971 CE)
- al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ (d. c. 362 AH / 973 CE)
- Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī (284–368 AH / 897–979 CE)
- al-Waʾwāʾ al-Dimashqī (d. c. 370 AH / 980 CE)
- the Khālidī brothers (d. c. 390 AH / 1000 CE)
- Ibn Jinnī (322–392 AH / 934–1002 CE)
- Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (358–398 AH / 969–1007 CE)
- al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (359–406 AH / 970–1015 CE)
- al-Tihāmī (d. 416 AH / 1025 CE)
- Ibn Zurayq al-Baghdādī (d. c. 420 AH / 1029 CE)
- Mihyār al-Daylamī (d. 428 AH / 1037 CE)
- al-Thaʿālibī (350–429 AH / 961–1038 CE)
- Abzūn al-ʿUmānī (d. c. 430 AH / 1039 CE)
- Abū al-Faḍl al-Mīkālī (d. 436 AH / 1044 CE)
- al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (355–436 AH / 966–1044 CE)
- Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (363–449 AH / 973–1057 CE)
- Ibn Rashīq al-Qayrawānī (390–456 AH / 1000–1064 CE)
- Ibn Sinān al-Khafājī (423–466 AH / 1032–1074 CE)
- al-Bākharzī (d. 467 AH / 1075 CE)
- Ibn Ḥayyūs (394–473 AH / 1003–1081 CE)
- al-Ḥuṣrī al-Qayrawānī (420–488 AH / 1029–1095 CE)
- al-Ghazālī (450–505 AH / 1058–1111 CE)
- al-Abīwardī (d. 507 AH / 1113 CE)
- al-Ḥarīrī (446–516 AH / 1054–1122 CE)
- Ibn al-Khayyāṭ (450–517 AH / 1058–1123 CE)
- Ibn al-Qaysarānī (478–548 AH / 1085–1154 CE)
- Sibṭ ibn al-Taʿāwīdhī (519–583 AH / 1125–1187 CE)