The Summary of Presentation of Research:
The Collection of Biography and Works
of Calligraphy Geniuses
Editor: H. R. Ghelichkhani
This collection is the greatest research about calligraphers and manuscripts in Iran which include compile biography and works of 25 masters of calligraphy in 25 volumes. These artists lived from 3rd century A.H. (9th century A.D.) to the end of Qajar period (20th century A.D.). In this research I was the head of the group which was researching since 2004 till 2007. It would be nice to mention that the Iranian Academy of Arts will start to publish this great collection soon. Each one of those volumes has 150 to 200 pages and all the collection contains 1200 pages of research and 2800 pages of image. Images of this collection is selected from 25/000 images of scanned or photographed manuscripts. 25 Artists are as follow:
No | Calligrapher | Death (A.D.) |
1 | Ebn-e Moghle (Farsi) | 939 |
2 | Yaghoot Al-Mostasemi | 1298 |
3 | Ahmad ebn-e Sohrevardi | 1340 |
4 | Jafar Baysonghori (Tabrizi) | 1404 |
5 | Soltan Ali Al-Mashhadi | 1519 |
6 | Mir Ali Al-Kateb (Heravi) | 1445 |
7 | Ekhtiar Al-Monshi | 1562 |
8 | Shah Mahmood (Neishaboori) | 1574 |
9 | Mohammad Husain Tabrizi | 1578 |
10 | Baba Shah Isfahani | 1584 |
11 | Ala-eddin Tabrizi | 1601 |
12 | Mir Emad Al-Hasani | 1615 |
13 | Ali Reza Abbasi (Tabrizi) | 1628 |
14 | Mohammad Shafi (Heravi) | 1670 |
15 | Ahmad Neirizi | 1747 |
16 | Abd-ol Majid Taleghani | 1772 |
17 | Vesal Shirazi | 1845 |
18 | Asadollah Shirazi | 1851 |
19 | Zein-ol Abedin Isfahani | 1878 |
20 | Mir Hosein | 1882 |
21 | Gholam Reza Isfahani | 1886 |
22 | Mohammad Reza Kalhor | 1892 |
23 | Mohammad Husain Shirazi | 1898 |
24 | Ali Akbar Golestaneh | 1901 |
25 | Mohammad Husain (Emad Al-Kottab) | 1936 |