EḴTĪĀR MONŠĪ, ḴᵛĀJA, a master calligrapher of the chancery taʿlīq style from Herat (fl. mid 10th/16th cent.). Eḵtīār never left…

ADHAM, MĪRZĀ EBRĀHĪM, 11th/17th century poet. He was a son, by a daughter of Shah ʿAbbās I, of Mīr Rażī…

AHLĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ, MAWLĀNĀ MOḤAMMAD, poet (858/1454?-942/1535). He apparently lived all his life in his native Shiraz. Of his parentage there…

ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD B. ʿABD-AL-ḠAFŪR TATTAVĪ, SHAIKH, noted lexicographer attached to the court of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān. He was born…

HOMĀYUN PĀDEŠĀH, NĀṢER-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD, posthumously known as Jahānbāni Jannat-āšiāni (1508–56), second Mughal emperor in Kabul (1530–56) and northern India (1530–40…