Awḥad al-Dīn Ḥāmid ibn Abi ʾl-Fakhr Kirmānī[a] (Persian: اوحدالدین حامد بن ابی الفخر; died 21 March 1238) was a Persian poet and Ṣūfī mystic.
[1][2] In Damascus, he met Ibn ʿArabī, who exercised a great influence on his ideas.
He ended his life a teacher in Baghdad, where he was rewarded by the caliph al-Mustanṣir in 1234/1235.
[1] Kirmānī's writings belong to the tradition of shāhidbāzī, seeing divine beauty in earthly things.
[3] He is the author of Mathnavi Misbāhu'l-arvāh ("the lantern of souls"), which is an allegorical pilgrimage through imaginary towns, bearing some affinity to Dante's Divine Comedy.