BUHTURI [al-Walid ibn `Ubaid Allah] (82o-897), Arabian poet, was born at Manbij (Hierapolis) in Syria, between Aleppo and the Euphrates. Like Abu Tammam, he was of the tribe of Tai. Although long resident in Baghdad he devoted much of his poetry to the praise of Aleppo, and much of his love-poetry is dedicated to Alwa, a maiden of that city. He died at Manbij (Hierapolis) in 897. His poetry was collected and edited twice in the loth century. It was published in Constantinople (in 1883). Like Abu Tammam he made a collection of early poems, known as the Hamasa (index of the poems contained in it, in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, vol. pp. 418 ff., c f. vol. xlv., pp. 470 ff.) .