Given the question: Facts:   - battles: battle jerusalem -lrb- 1187 -rrb- third crusade of marj uyun battle of hattin siege of    - death date: 1201    - allegiance: zengid dynasty    - nickname: imad ad-din    - placeofburial: lost      - birth date: 1125    - unit: kings guard    - name: muhammad ibn hamed isfahani    - death place: cairo    - birth place: isfahan , seljuk empire   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of imad ad-din al-isfahani .
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muhammad ibn hamed isfahani -lrb- 1125 -- june 20 , 1201 -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- , more popularly known as imad ad-din al-isfahani -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- -lrb- 519-13 ramadan 597 -rrb- -rrb- , 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 .