List of Persian calligraphers

This is a list of historical and contemporary Persian calligraphers. One of the most influential historical Persian calligraphers was Mir Ali Tabrizi, known as the creator of Nastaliq, a calligraphic script developed in the 14th-century Iran.

Historical Persian calligraphers

• Ahmad Shamlu
• Ahmad al-Suhrawardi (1256–1340)
• Alaeddin Tabrizi (16th-century)
• Baysunghur Mirza (1397–1433)
• Ibn Muqla (880s–940)
• Jafar Tabrizi (fl. 1412–1433)
• Marjan Kateb Islami (17th-century)
• Mir Ali Tabrizi (14th-century)
• Mir Emad Hassani (1554–1615)
• Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani (c. 1830–1887)
• Sultan Ali Mashhadi (1453–1520)
• Yaqut al-Musta'simi (died 1298)
• Zeinolabedin Mahallati (19th-century)

Iranian contemporary calligraphers

• Ali Adjalli (born 1939)
• Gholam Hossein Amirkhani (born 1939)
• Golnaz Fathi (born 1972)
• Yadollah Kaboli Khansari (born 1949)
• Keikhosro Khoroush (born 1941)
• Reza Mafi (1943–1982)
• Faramarz Pilaram (1937–1983)
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940–2020)
• Jalil Rasouli (born 1947)
• Parviz Tanavoli (born 1937)

See also

• List of Ottoman calligraphers
• List of Georgian calligraphers
• Hurufiyya movement

References