Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Abbās ibn Jūrayj (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن العباس بن جريج), also known as Ibn al-Rūmī[3] (born Baghdad in 836; died 896), was the grandson of George the Greek (Jūraij or Jūrjis i.e. Georgius) and a popular Arab[4] poet of Baghdād in the Abbāsid-era.
In the tenth century his Dīwān (collected poetry), which had been transmitted orally by al-Mutanabbī, was arranged and edited by Abū Bakr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī, and included in the section of his book Kitāb Al-Awrāq (كتاب الاوراق) on muḥadathūn (modern poets).
[6][7][8][9][10] Ibn al-Rumi was born in Baghdad, then the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, in 836.
"Son of the Roman), referring to his father's Greek ancestry.
Ibn al-Rumi died in Baghdad in the year 896, at the age of 59.