al-Ṣanawbarī (d. c.334/945) and al-Maʿarrī (d. 449/1058), who wrote commentaries on his work, and literati, including the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 170–93/786–809)—admired his talent. Dhū l-Rumma’s poetry represents a mature phase in the development of the Bedouin poetic tradition but also marks the end of its supremacy. This is succinctly expressed in Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ’s saying that “poetry came to an end with Dhū l-Rumma” (al-Iṣfahānī, 18:9). List of poems Editions and translations ʿAbd al-Qaddūs Abū Ṣāliḥ () (ed.), Dīwān Dhī l-Rumma. Sharḥ Abī Naṣr al-Bāhilī, riwāyat Thaʿlab (). Based on the editor's Ph.D. thesis. 1st edn, 3 vols (Beirut 1972), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3. 2nd edn, 3 vols (Beirut 1982), archive.org scan, machine-readable text. 3rd edn, 3 vols (Beirut 1994). Muṭī al-Babbīlī (ed.), Diwān Dhū l-Rummah (Damascus, 1964). Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (ed.), The Dîwân of Ghailân Ibn ʿUqbah known as Dhu ’r-Rummah (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1919). Michael Sells, Desert tracings. Six classic Arabian odes by ʿAlqama, Shánfara, Labíd, ʿAntara, Al-Aʿsha, and Dhu al-Rúmma (Middletown CT 1989), pp. 67–76. Selections from the Diwan of Gailan ibn ʻUqba Dhuʹl Rumma, trans. by Arthur Wormhoudt ([Oskaloosa, Iowa]: William Penn College, 1982), (text in Arabic and English, on opposite pages; notes in English) References Asian poets Male poets Place of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 690s births 730s deaths 8th-century Arabic poets 8th-century Arabs 8th-century people from the Umayyad Caliphate