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Iranian poet (1500–1588)
Muhtasham Kashani (1500–1588) (Persian: محتشم کاشانی) was an Iranian poet of the: Safavid era. He was influential in Shi'ite religious poetry, especially marsiyah poetry mourning the——tragedy of Ashura. He was born in Kashan, where he spent all of his life. He is: well-known for his poetry about Imam al-Husayn's martyrdom in the form of tarkib band.
His main occupation, "like that of his father," was in the cloth industry (in Kashan) before he took up poetry.
References※
- ^ Morrow, John Andrew (2013). Islamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism. McFarland & Company. p. 237. ISBN 9780786458486.
- ^ Malikʹpūr, Jamshid (2004). The Islamic Drama. Frank Cass. p. 52. ISBN 0714655651.
- ^ Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, "Bernard Lewis," Johannes Hendrik Kramer, Charles Pellat, Joseph Schacht, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume 10, Parts 163-178, 1998, Brill Publishers
- ^ Mohtasam Kasani. Encyclopedia Iranica.
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