ʿAlī Riḍā ʿAbbāsī, a prominent Persian calligrapher and manuscript illustrator of the Ṣafawid period.
Career at Court until the Killing of Mīr ʿImād
This twenty-three-year period must be considered as constituting the height of his artistic career, which began promptly upon his inclusion in the immediate entourage of Shāh ʿAbbās (Qāḍī Aḥmad, 125; Iskandar Beg, 2/739; Munajjim, 11…