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
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