Dhû l-Rumma

Abū l-Ḥārith Ghaylān b. ʿUqba, generally known as Dhū al-Rumma was a Bedouin poet and a rāwī of al-Rāʿī al-Numayrī. In the assessment of Nefeli Papoutsakis, 'he stands at the end of a long poetic tradition which, for the most part, expressed the ethos and intellectual preoccupations of the pre-Islamic tribal society of Bedouin Arabs - a fact reflected in the saying of Abū 'Amr b. al-'Alā' that "poetry was closed with Dū r-Rumma" '.