Imad Ad-Din Al-Isfahani

Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – June 20, 1201) (Persian: محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی‎), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani (Persian: عماد الدین اصفهانی‎) (Arabic: عماد الدين الأصفهاني‎ (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.