Kamal al-Din Isfahani ( fa, کمال الدین اسماعیل; 1172 – 1237) was a
Persian
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writer of
qasida
The qaṣīda (also spelled ''qaṣīdah''; is originally an Arabic word , plural ''qaṣā’id'', ; that was passed to some other languages such as fa, قصیده or , ''chakameh'', and tr, kaside) is an ancient Arabic word and form of writin ...
s and other forms of poetry, who lived from 1172–1237. He and his father, the poet
Jamal al-Din Muhammad Isfahani, were well known in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
. He was murdered during the
Mongol invasion
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and buried in a simple
tomb
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. His tomb is in the
Jouybareh district
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Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligio ...
in Isfahan.
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1172 births
1237 deaths
12th-century Iranian people
13th-century Iranian people
12th-century Persian-language poets
13th-century Persian-language poets
Writers from Isfahan
Poets of the Khwarazmian Empire
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