Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am was an Arabic poet of the

Umayyad period The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...

. Of Persian origin, he was a mawla of the Amir b. al-Harith, a branch of the Abd al-Kays. Ziyād owed his nickname, " al-Aʿd̲j̲am," to his strong Persian accent. According to anecdotes told in the '' Aghani'', his grammar and pronunciation of spoken Arabic was not ideal.

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