| Yadollah Maftun Amini یدالله مفتون امینی | |
| Birth Date: | 12 June 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, Iran |
| Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality: | Iranian |
| Years Active: | 1957–2022 |
Yadollah Maftun Amini (Persian: یدالله مفتون امینی; 12 June 1926 – 1 December 2022) was an Iranian poet.
Yadollah Amini, whose literary nickname was Maftun, was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran.[1] He did his early education up to the end of high school in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in Tehran University's Faculty of Law.
Maftun Amini started with classical-style Persian Poetry, but gradually proceeded to modern and non-rhythmic Persian Poetry in the 1980s. Other than poems in Persian, Maftun wrote poems in his mother tongue, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan was Maftun's first Azerbaijani poetry collection. A major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgia.
Maftun Amini died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 96.[2]