Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas Imru

Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr, cuyo nombre podría traducirse como “esclavo de Qays”, siendo Qays una divinidad local masculina de la región de Hegra (Medain-Salih) que se encargaba de la conservación de archivos legales, fue el poeta preislámico más conocido y autor de la primera Mu'allaqa o poema colgado, en alusión a aquellas casidas que en la etapa de la poesía árabe oral, gozaban del honor de ser escritas para su permanencia en letras de oro y pender en el recinto de la Kaaba por haber vencido en la célebre competición poética de Ukaz.

Imru' al-Qays ibn 'Amr was the second Lakhmid king. His mother was Maria bint 'Amr, the sister of Ka'b al-Azdi. There is debate on his religious affinity: while Theodor Nöldeke noted that Imru' al-Qays ibn 'Amr was not a christian Irfan Shahid argued for a possible christian affiliation, noting that Imru'al Qays' christianity may have been "orthodox, heretical or of the Manichaean type". Furthermore Shahid asserts that the funerary inscription of Imru' al Qays ibn 'Amr lacks christian formulas and symbols. Al-Tabari states that "he ruled for the Persians in all the land of the Arabs in Iraq, Hejaz and Mesopotamia". Imru' al-Qays is called in his epitaph inscription: "The king of all Arabs who owned the crown," while the same title was the title given to the kings of Hatra. The same inscription mentions that Imru' al-Qays reached as far as Najran and besieged it from the king, Shammar Yahri'sh. Some scholars have identified "Imru' al-Qays ibn 'Amr" in some South Arabian inscriptions with that one. In those same inscriptions his name is mentioned along with Shammar Yahri'sh, the Himyarite king.