Alireza Abbassi

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A 17th century chalipa by Alireza Abbassi

Alireza Abbassi Tabrizi ( listen ? / I PersianAudio file / audio sample علیرضا عباسی تبریزی, æliɾɛzɑ æbbɑsi jɛ tæbɾizi ) was an Iranian calligrapher and calligraphy teacher. Abbas I titled him as Shāhnavāz Xān . Abbassi was a master of the Nashi and Thuluth scripts and the author of his own Nastaliq script. He was also an expert on various other scriptures , such as Muhaqqaq , Reqa , Rejhan , Tauqi and Taliq .

youth

Alireza Abbassi began in Tabriz as an apprentice to Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi and Ala Beyk . Abbassi gained excellent knowledge of Thuluth and Nasch script. After the Ottomans occupied Tabriz in the era of Mohammad Chodābandes , Abbassi left the city and went to Qazvin , the capital of the Safavids . There he lived in the Qazvin Friday mosque . He worked as a calligrapher and completed some parts of the mosque's inscriptions and some copies of the Koran . He became famous for working on the Friday Mosque of Qazvin. In the first years of Abbas I's rule he was in the service of Sardar Farhad Khan, an important Sardar of the Safavids, whose dignity and rank increased considerably under Abbas I. When Sardar Farhad found a capable artist in Alireza Abbassi, he appointed him his personal companion, who accompanied him to Khorasan and Māzandarān .

At the Safavid court

Alireza Abbassi's fame rose. On July 1, 1593 Abbassi became the king's confidante. He asked some calligraphers, such as Mohammad Reza Emami , Mohammed Saleh Isfahani and Abd al-Baqi Tabrizi , to teach Abbassi the Thuluth script.

The date of Alireza Abbassi's death is unknown, but is believed to have been around the end of the Safi I era .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mohammad Naghshi Tabrizi: Hayāt e Alireza Abbassi, Xošnevis e maruf e dore ye Safaviye (The life of Alireza Abbassi, the famous calligrapher of the Safavid era). In: Honar o Mardom (Art and People). Volume 2, No. 20, 1964, pp. 30-31.
  2. ↑ http://rahnamaei-honar.blogsky.com/1390/10
  3. ↑ http://xyz200875.blogfa.com/post/4
personal data
SURNAME Abbassi, Alireza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbassi Tabrizi, Alireza (full name); Xān, Šāhnavāz; علیرضا عباسی تبریزی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian calligrapher and calligraphy teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century