Jamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Iṣfahānī was a poet and painter of the second half of the sixth/twelfth century. Almost all we know about him comes from his Dīvān (collection of poems), but some information can be found also in the Rāḥat al-ṣudūr wa-āyat al-surūr dar tārikh-i Āl-i Saljūq ("Dynastic history of the Great Saljūqs," written between 599/1202-3 and 603/1206-7) by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Rāvandī (fl. 575-96/1180-1200), a Persian historian, and in the Dīvān of Jamāl al-Dīn'