Abdel Rahim Mahmoud presented a model for the poetry of resistance and fighting for freedom. He followed the path of formal education; He attended primary school in his hometown of Anabta, then moved to Al-Najah National School in Nablus.
His father, Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Anabtawi, was from an ancient and wealthy Palestinian family. He was also a poet and jurist who graduated from Al-Azhar and became one of the sheikhs of the Hanbali school of thought.