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AMONG those who have sung of love in Persia not the least is Kamal ad-Din Ismail of Isfahan. Of his life we have some brief accounts, the longest of which is contained in the ‘ Tadhikirat ush Shu‘ara,’ or ‘ Memoirs of the Poets,’ written in the fifteenth century by Daulatshah of Samarkand, whose account of the poet is as follows: ‘Jamal ad-Din Abd ar-Razzak, the descendant of integrity and the ancestor of honour, had two sons, Muin ad-Din Abd al-Karim and Kamal ad-Din Ismail. Muin ad-Din was mu of understanding and wisdom, and Kamal ad-Din also was learned and wise, and their family was in great honour in Isfahan, and high grandees bent themselves to the education of Kamal ad-Din Ismail.