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Nastaliq, also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and Urdu. It is often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, but rarely for Arabic. Nastaliq developed in Iran from naskh beginning in the 13th century and remains widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and other countries for written poetry and as a form of art.
Mir Emad is perhaps the most celebrated Persian calligrapher. He was born in Qazvin, Iran. It is believed that the Nastaʿlīq style reached its highest elegance in Mir Emad's works. These are considered amongst the finest specimens of Nastaʿlīq calligraphy and are kept in several museums in the world.
Dār ul-Funun is the oldest Western-style institute of higher education in Iran, established by the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah in 1851.
An Iranian architect is traditionally called a mi'mar.
In Shi'a Islam the guidance of clergy and keeping such a structure holds great importance. There are several branches of Shi'ism, of which Twelver Shi'ism is by far the largest, and each of the branches has different clergy structures. Individual clerics are referred to as mullā or ākhūnd, but since those terms have developed "a somewhat pejorative connotation" since at least the 1980s, the term rūḥānī has been "promoted" as an alternative, "especially by the clerical class itself".
Persian calligraphy or Iranian calligraphy is the calligraphy of the Persian language. It is one of the most revered arts throughout the history of Iran.
Ibn Babawayh cemetery, also spelled as Ebn-e Babviyeh, Ebn-e Babooyeh, is located in Iran in the town of Rey.
Sultan ‛Ali Mashhadi, Persian: سلطانعلی مشهدی was a Persian calligrapher and master of nastaliq script.
Taleqan County is in Alborz province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Taleqan, formerly Shahrak.
Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī Tabrizi was a renowned master in calligraphy as well as a poet and scribe in the 15th century. He was noted for being competent in Nastaʿlīq as well as other six classical scripts. His prominent student, Azhar Tabrizi once called Ja'far the second founder of Nastaʿlīq asserting that he even surpassed his teacher.
Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani, known as Khoshnevis, was a late 19th-century Iranian calligrapher and epigraphist. He was one of the masters of Persian calligraphy, in particular the Nastaliq, Shekasteh-Nastaliq and Shekasteh scripts.
Mohammad Hossein Tabrizi was a Persian calligrapher in 16th-century Safavid Iran. Tabrizi learnt calligraphy from the famous Ahmad Mashhadi. He later became a teacher of the equally renowned Mir Emad Hassani. Due to his great command in the art of calligraphy, a renowned profession in Iran, he was bestowed with the honorary title mihin Ustad.
Ahmad Mashhadi, also known as Mir Seyyed Ahmad, was an important Persian Nastaliq calligrapher in the 16th century. He was from Mashhad. He was also a poet and some of his original poems still exist.
Gholam Hossein Tabrizi was an Iranian Shia cleric. He is survived by his two sons, Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei and Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei.