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This article examines the theological function of poetry in the Islamic scholarly tradition, arguing that poetic expression constituted a legitimate and authoritative mode of theological reasoning among the Ulama. Drawing on qualitative hermeneutic and thematic textual analysis of poetic works by figures such as Imam al-Ghazali, Jalal al-Din Rumi,