Mīr S. Baṣrī

Mir (also transliterated as Me'īr and Meer) S. Baṣrī (; 1911-2006) was an Iraqi writer, economist, journalist, politician and poet.

Early life Basri was born on 19 September 1911 in Baghdad to Shaool Basri and Farha Dangoor (the daughter of the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad, Ezra Reuben Dangoor). His father was a cloth merchant in Baghdad, and his uncle was the head of the Sharia court in Baghdad in 1848 AD. Basri was educated Baghdad at al-Ta'awun and the Alliance school where he studied Hebrew, English, and French. Following his secondary education, he trained as an economist and studied Arabic literature.

He mastered the Arabic sciences at the hands of Father Anastase-Marie al-Karmali and Dr. Mustafa Jawad. He studied the history of Iraq at the hands of the lawyer Abbas Al-Azzawi, and studied the Hebrew language at the hands of Isaac Butfis, and prosody at the hands of the poet Mahmoud Al-Mallah. He was released to attend the Arab Writers Conference in Baghdad.

Writing During his career, Basri wrote in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, periodical, and essay and memoir. Basri described himself as being enthralled with Arabic, particularly Arabic poetry, and published much of his work in the language. In the field of poetry and literature, he published in the Egyptian Al-Kateb magazine, the Beirut Al-Adeeb magazine, and others. He documented the lives of nearly a thousand Iraqi figures in various sciences and arts.

Basri wrote an article about Karbala entitled Karbala, Memories and Glimpses and referred to his epic Processions of the Ages and mentioned a small excerpt from it. Among what was stated in his article: "Karbala was and still is an Islamic cultural centre" then he talked about the events that it went through such as the Wahhabi incident, the Najib Pasha incident, and the Revolution of the Twenties.

He also wrote a review of the seventh century collection of poems in the Husayni Encyclopedia entitled (Painful Human Literature), in which he said: "This Husayni Encyclopedia was interested in Husayni literature in one aspect, which is a sad human literature that immortalizes the tragedy of Karbala, which has been mentioned throughout the ages as a symbol of freedom and redemption. We rarely find in world literature an example of this literature whose voices have risen from pulpits and whose verses have been enshrined in books, and which has remained alive. in the hearts and on the tongues of hundreds of generations, stirring up emotions and making eyes weep."