Poet
Most of the information concerning the life of Faḫr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm Hamadānī (his penname was ʿIrāqī) stems from an “anonymous mukaddima (introduction), composed in the manner and style of ʿIrāqī’s own period (the end of the 7th/13th) or the beginning of the following period”.
It is has been said that ʿIrāqī was born at Hamadān where at a young age he impressed some wandering dervishes who then convinced him to follow them to India. There he became a disciple of Bahā al-Dīn Zakariya and, after twenty-five years of devotion, his successor. As a result of ʿIrāqī’s nomination the other dervishes became jealous, so ʿIrāqī left them and began his life of many travels. He first went to Mecca and Medina and then to Asia Minor. There ʿIrāqī gained the confidence of Ṣadr al-Dīn of Konya, to whom he submitted his work Lamaʿāt and received high praise. It was during this period that ʿIrāqī gained his reputation: followers began to gather around him and a monastery was built for him. Later, he traveled to Egypt and Damascus, receiving warm welcomes from the sultans of both places. As his many travels and mystically inclined poetry attest, ʿIrāqī is perhaps “the typical qalandar , heedless of reputation, and seeing in every beautiful face or object a reflection, as in a mirror, of the Eternal Beauty. He died at Damascus 688/1289.
Lamaʿāt (=Kitāb al- Lamaʿāt)
Lamaʿāt (Flashes) is a mystical treatise, predominantly in prose but containing a fair amount of verse, influenced by the great Ibn al-ʿArabi. Lamaʿāt was completed prior to 673/1274.
ʿUššāq-nāmah (= Dih-nāmah)
ʿUššāq-nāmah, or Dih-nāmah, was dedicated to Šams al-Dīn Djuwayni and consists of a manavī followed by ghazals on mystic subjects.