Abu Firas al-Hamdani
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Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932-968): Arab poet and knight. Born in Mosul, Iraq. He was the cousin of Sayf al-Daula, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Syria. Sayf al-Daula appointed him governor of the town of Manbej, near Aleppo. He was imprisoned by the Byzantines in one of Sayf al-Daula's battles against them and spent 6 years in their jails, where he wrote his most famous poems, the 'Roumiyat'. He tried taking over the city of Homs after the death of Sayf al-Daula, but he was killed in battle on April 4, 968.
