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  • ʿABBĀS, ḤĀJĪ

    J. W. Allan

    Signature found on a number of pieces of metalwork from Iran.

  • ʿABBĀSĪ, ŠAYḴ

    R. Skelton

    Apart from an apparently early work in the standard Isfahan style of the second quarter of the 17th century (Cristie’s 10 July 1975, lot 197), Šayḵ ʿAbbāsī departed from the established conventions of Safavid painting and embarked upon an eclectic manner in which European and Indian elements played an important role.

  • ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB

    D. Duda

    painter of the Safavid period employed in the royal workshops of Tabriz who lost his nose under mysterious and debated circumstances. According to the historian Qāẓī Aḥmad, both father and son were excellent painters from Kāšān.

  • ʿABD-AL-ḤAYY, ḴᵛĀJĀ

    P. P. Soucek

    miniaturist (late 8th/14th century).

  • ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR

    D. Duda

    calligrapher at the Safavid court in Isfahan in the time of Shah ʿAbbās I (17th century).

  • ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR ASTARĀBĀDĪ

    D. Duda

    calligrapher of the taʿlīq script and bookpainter. 

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ

    P. P. Soucek

    specimens of calligraphy now in Leningrad and Istanbul are signed by him as written during his tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years, indicating that he was a skilled calligrapher at an early age. Unfortunately, none of these pages bear dates which would make it possible to determine the year of his birth.

  • ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

    P. P. Soucek

    revered as the calligrapher who gave šekasta script its definitive form.

  • ʿABD-AL-QĀDER ŠĪRĀZĪ

    E. Baer

    Metalworker of late 13th century, whose one attested signed work is a silver and gold-inlaid brass bowl (Galleria Estense, Modena, no. 8082).

  • ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ʿANBARĪN-QALAM

    M. A. Chaghatai

    calligrapher of India (fl. late 10th-11th centuries).