Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi

Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi ( listen ^?^/^I Persian محمد حسین تبریزی, mohæmmæd hosɛjn ɛ tæbɾizi or Molla Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi ; * unknown; † October 10. 1577 in Qazvin ) was calligrapher and expert of Nastaliq - writing . Like Mir Emad and Alireza Abbassi, he was dubbed Mahin Ostād (this means the greatest master in Persian ). He was also a poet and wrote under the pseudonym Mahsun .

As a young man, Hosseyn went to Mashhad to learn calligraphy with Ahmad Mashhadi and Mir Heydar Khoshnevis. He finished his studies with Malek Deylami . As he showed a skill in epigraphy , he was commissioned at the time of Shah Ismail II to engrave the inscriptions on state buildings.

Individual evidence

↑ Habibollah Fazaeli: Atlas-e khat ( Persian ). Maschal, 1983, pp. 340-350.
↑ Mehdi Bayani: Ahvāl o Āsār e Xošnevisān (Biographies and Works of the Calligraphers) ( Persian ). Elmi, 1984, pp. 680-683.

personal data
SURNAME	Tabrizi, Mohammad Hosseyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tabrizi, Molla Mohammad Hosseyn; Mahsun (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH	16th Century
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1577
Place of death	Qazvin

[1] Habibollah Fazaeli: Atlas-e khat ( Persian ). Maschal, 1983, pp. 340-350.

[2] Mehdi Bayani: Ahvāl o Āsār e Xošnevisān (Biographies and Works of the Calligraphers) ( Persian ). Elmi, 1984, pp. 680-683.