Qiwam al-Din al-Fath ibn Ali ibn Muhammad al-Bundari al-Isfahani (Arabic: قوام الدين الفتح إبن علي محمد البنداري الإصفهاني; died after 1241/2), commonly known as Bundari (بنداري) or al-Bundari (البنداري), was an Iranian writer who is known for translating the Persian epic poem Shahnameh into Arabic.
[1] Bundari was born and raised in the city of Isfahan,[1] located in Persian Iraq (Irāq-i Ajam), a region corresponding to the western part of Iran.
[2] The modern historians al-Ziriklu and Jalili state that he was born in 1190, but the Iranologist Azartash Azarnoosh considered this uncertain.
Bundari most likely left Damascus after the death of al-Mu'azzam Isa in 1227, possibly returning to Isfahan, which was ruled by the Khwarazmshah.
[1] Bundari is also known to have written two other books, the Sana al-Barq al-Shami and Zubdat al-nuṣra wa nukhbat al-usra.