Khvājū Kirmānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kamāl al-Dīn Abū l-ʿAṭāʾ Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd Murshidī Kirmānī (d. 750/1349), called Kh v ājū Kirmānī , was a Persian court poet, also known as Nakhlband-i Shuʿarā (garland-maker of the poets, so called from a verse in his mathnavī titled Humāy-u Humāyūn , "Humāy and Humayūn"). 1. Life Kh v ājū was born in Kirmān on 20 Dhū l-Ḥijja 689/24 December 1290, as stated by the poet himself in the epilogue of another mathnavī (narrative poem rhyming AA, BB, CC...), Gul-u