Muhtasham Kashani (1500–1588) ( fa, محتشم کاشانی) was an Iranian poet of the
Safavid era. He was influential in
Shi'ite
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...
religious poetry, especially ''
marsiyah
A marsiya ( fa, مرثیه) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain ibn Ali and his comrades of the Karbala. Marsiyas are essentially religious.
Background
The word ''Marsiya'' is derived from the Arabic word ...
'' poetry mourning the tragedy of
Ashura. He was born in
Kashan
Kashan ( fa, ; Qashan; Cassan; also romanized as Kāshān) is a city in the northern part of Isfahan province, Iran. At the 2017 census, its population was 396,987 in 90,828 families.
Some etymologists argue that the city name comes from ...
, where he spent all of his life. He is well-known for his poetry about
Imam al-Husayn's martyrdom in the form of ''tarkib band''.
His main occupation, like that of his father, was in the cloth industry (in Kashan) before he took up poetry.
References
1500 births
1588 deaths
16th-century Iranian poets
People from Kashan
16th-century writers of Safavid Iran
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