SANGLĀḴ, MOḤAMMAD-ʿALI
(b. Qučān, Khorasan, date unknown; d. Tabriz, 3 March 1877), celebrated calligrapher and stone carver, as well as poet and author. He lived as a dervish and spent much of his time traveling, with long sojourns in the Ottoman empire and Egypt.
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Cite this article
Maryam Ekhtiar, "SANGLĀḴ, MOḤAMMAD-ʿALI," Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2008, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sanglakh (accessed on 15 December 2012).