Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani

Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – June 20, 1201) , more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani ( (519-13 Ramadan 597)), was a Persian historian, scholar, and rhetorician. He left a valuable anthology of Arabic poetry to accompany his many historical works and worked as a man of letters during the Zengid and Ayyubid period.