Mohtasham Kashani

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.^[1] 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^[2] in the form of tarkib band.^[3]

His main occupation, like that of his father, was in the cloth industry (in Kashan) before he took up poetry.^[4]

References

1. Morrow, John Andrew (2013). Islamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism. McFarland & Company. p. 237. ISBN 9780786458486.
2. Malikʹpūr, Jamshid (2004). The Islamic Drama. Frank Cass. p. 52. ISBN 0714655651.
3. 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
4. Mohtasam Kasani. Encyclopedia Iranica.