Bashshar ibn Burd

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Abū Muʿādh Bashshār ibn Burd (Arabic: أبو معاذ بشّار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Muraʿʿath (Arabic: المرعّث, 'the wattled'), was a poet of Arab descent of a tribe called Bani Aqeel during the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods. Some scholars consider Bashshar the first "modern" poet in Arabic literature.

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