Qays ibn al-Moullawwah was a 7th-century Arabian poet from Najd, Arabia, a member of the Bedouin tribe Banu 'Amir. He lived during the Umayyad Caliphate. Qays was renowned for his profound love for Layla, a woman who belong to the same tribe, which gave him a posthumous epithet of Majnūn (madman).
