Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani
| Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Imad ad-din |
| Born | 1125 Isfahan, Seljuk Empire |
| Died | 1201 Cairo |
| Allegiance |
Zengid Dynasty Ayyubid Dynasty |
| Unit | Kings Guard |
| Battles/wars |
Battle of Marj Uyun Battle of Hattin Siege of Jerusalem (1187) Third Crusade |
Zengid Dynasty
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.
He was born in Isfahan in the year 1125, and studied at the Nizamiyya school in Baghdad. He graduated into the bureaucracy, and held jurisdiction over Basra and Wasit. He then became a deputy of the vizier ibn Hubayra. After the death of ibn Hubayra, he went to Damascus in 1166 CE (562 Islamic Calendar) and entered the service of the qadi of Damascus, Kamal ad-Din. The qadi presented him to the Zengid Nur ad-Din, who appointed him a professor in the school he had established there, which then became known as the Imadiyya school in his honour. Nur ad-Din was later appointed to be his Chancellor.
After the death of Nur ad-Din in 1174, Imad ad-Din was removed from all his bureaucratic duties, and was banished from the palace. He went to live in Mosul and later entered the service of Saladin, the Kurdish Sultan of Egypt during that time. When Saladin took control of Damascus, Saladin's vizier, al-Qadi al-Fadil, appointed him chancellor, and he also became al-Fadil's deputy. Saladin had been unsure of his talent because he was only a scribe, Imad ad-Din soon became one of the sultan's favourites. As chancellor he did not have to perform the everyday duties of the chancery scribes, and he had a lot of leisure time in Egypt.
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