Arab poets

Arab poet and the character of the romantic fiction Layla and Majnun

Abu Layla ʿUday ibn Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥāriṯ at-Taghlibī (;  443 – 531 CE), also known by the nicknames al-Muhalhil ("he who finely weaves poems") and az-Zīr Sālim ("the philander"), was an Arabic pre-Islamic poet and warrior born in Najd. He led the Banu Taghlib tribe in the forty-year long War of Basus.

Syrian faqih, writer and poet