Bashshar ibn Burd
Abū Muʿādh Bashshār ibn Burd (Arabic: أبو معاذ بشّار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Muraʿʿath (Arabic: المرعّث, 'the wattled'), was a Persian 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.