ABU’L-QĀSEM SAʿĪD B. EBRĀHĪM B. ʿALAM EBRĀHĪM B. ṢĀLEḤ, 5th/11th century calligrapher, probably a native and resident of Nīšāpūr. His…

ABU’L-MAʿṢŪM MĪRZĀ, painter, portraitist, draftsman, engraver, and expert in artistic bookbinding and restoring who was extolled by the historian Qāżī…

ABU’L-ḤASAN NĀDER-AL-ZAMĀN, noted Mughal painter. He was born in 997/1589 at the court of Prince Salīm (later the emperor Jahāngīr),…

ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ, name of two artists of the Safavid period. 1. Miniature painter, apparently active in the second half of the…

ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR B. ḤĀJJĪ ʿALĪ MONŠĪ ASTARĀBĀDĪ, calligrapher of the taʿlīq script and bookpainter. He worked at the court of Khan…

ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR, a calligrapher at the Safavid court in Isfahan in the time of Shah ʿAbbās I. He was the pupil…

ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB, painter of the Safavid period. According to the historian Qāẓī Aḥmad, both father and son were excellent…