Kamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī (b. c. 568/ 1172, d. 635/1237) was a panegyrist of seventh/thirteenth-century Isfahan, nicknamed Khallāq al-Maʿānī ("creator of ideas," i.e., a creative artist). 1. Life Kamāl al-Dīn was the son of the celebrated poet Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Iṣfahānī (d. before 599/1202). He began to write poetry at the age of just fourteen and gained fame with an elegy (marthiya) composed for his father's death, when he was scarcely twenty years old. He sought the patronage of Rukn al-