Bashshar ibn Burd
Persian poet who wrote in Arabic (714-783) · Writers · Lived 714 to 784 · aged 70
Abū Muʿādh Bashshār ibn Burd, nicknamed al-Muraʿʿath, 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.
Bashshar ibn Burd is read about 118 times a day, in 20 languages.
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Some Arab scholars considered Bashshar the first "modern" poet, 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.
