Bashar_ibn_Burd
Bashshār ibn Burd[1][2] (Arabic: بشّار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Mura'ath, meaning "the wattled", was a Persian[3] poet of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods who wrote in Arabic. Bashshar was of Persian ethnicity; his grandfather was taken as a captive to Iraq, but his father was a freedman (mawla) of the Uqayl tribe. Some Arab scholars considered Bashshar the first "modern" poet,[4] and one of the pioneers of badi' in Arabic literature. It is believed that the poet exerted a great influence on the subsequent generation of poets.