Old time Persian calligraphers
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Ahmad Shamlou
Ahmad Shamlou ( fa, احمد شاملو, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ( fa, ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most infl ...
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Ahmad al-Suhrawardi
Ahmad al-Suhrawardi (1256 – 1340), was a Persian calligrapher and musician from Baghdad, who lived in the Ilkhanate era.
Belonging to a prominent family of mystics, Ahmad was most likely the grandson of the Sufi master Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-S ...
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Alaeddin Tabrizi
Alaeddin Tabrizi or Ala'al-Din Tabrizi ( fa, علاءالدین تبریزی) was a royal master calligrapher who was active during the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp ( 1524–76), for whom he executed '' firman'' ( fa, فرمان, lit=r ...
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Baysunghur Mirza
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Ibn Muqla
Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla ( ar, أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muqla; 885/6 – 20 July 940/1), commonly known as Ibn Muqla, was an official of the Abbasid Caliphate of Pers ...
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Jafar Tabrizi
Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī Tabrizi (also known as Farīd al-Dīn and Qeblat al-Kottāb) was a renowned master in calligraphy as well as a poet and scribe in the 15th century. He was noted for being competent in Nastaʿlīq as well as other six classical sc ...
(Baysonqori)
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Marjan Kateb Islami
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Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi ( fa, ) was a distinguished Iranian calligrapher of the 14th century, to whom the invention of Nas-Taliq calligraphy style is attributed.
Early life
He lived in the 14th century. Historians have not been able to unveil details ...
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Mir Emad Hassani
Mir Emad (born Emad al-Molk Qazvini Hasani ( fa, ), 1554 – August 15, 1615) is perhaps the most celebrated Persian calligrapher. He was born in Qazvin, Iran. It is believed that the Nastaʿlīq style reached its highest elegance in ...
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Mirza Qolam-Reza (Khosh-nevis Bashi)
Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani, known as Khoshnevis (1829-30 - 1886-87), was a late 19th-century Iranian calligrapher and epigraphist. He was one of the masters of Persian calligraphy, in particular the Nastaliq, Shekasteh-Nastaliq and Shekasteh scr ...
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Sultan Ali Mashhadi
Sultan ‛Ali Mashhadi, fa, سلطانعلی مشهدی (full name: Sultan Ali-i Muhammad-i Mashhadi) ( fl 1453–1519, d. 1520) was a Persian calligrapher and master of nastaliq script.
Born in Mashhad, Sultan ‛Ali lost his father when he ...
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Yaqut al-Musta'simi
Yaqut al-Musta'simi (Persian: یاقوت مستعصمی)(Arabic: ياقوت المستعصمي) (also Yakut-i Musta'simi) (died 1298) was a well-known Calligraphy, calligrapher and secretary of the Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid caliph.
Life and wo ...
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Zeinolabedin Mahallati
Contemporary Iranian calligraphers
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Ali Adjalli (b. 1939) (alternative: Ghorbanali Ajali)
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Golnaz Fathi
Golnaz Fathi (born 1972) is an Iranian contemporary artist noted for her artwork in the hurufiyya tradition.
Life and career
She was born in Tehran and studied graphic design at Islamic Azad University, receiving a BA in 1995. She went on to s ...
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Qorban Ali Ajali Vaseq
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