Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
Mohammad Hashem Cheshti, also known with surname Chishti and as Ustad Hashem, was a contemporary classical musician and composer born in Kharabat area of Kabul, Afghanistan, who died in 1994 in Germany under unclear circumstances.
Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
- Name
- Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
- Died
- 1994
- Place of death
- Germany
- Born
- 2000 · Kabul.
- Nationality
- Afghanistan
- Occupation
- composer · singer
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Mohammad Hashem Cheshti, also known with surname Chishti and as Ustad Hashem, was a contemporary classical musician and composer born in Kharabat area of Kabul, Afghanistan, who died in 1994 in Germany under unclear circumstances.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Mohammad Hashem Cheshti. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1246421 · wikipedia · Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mohammad Hashem Cheshti • Died — 1994 • Place of death — Germany • Origin — Kabul, Afghanistan • Instrument — Tabla • Genre — Klasik
Early life
Early life
Ustad Hashem was born and raised in a musical family, which originally came from Kasur in Punjab, but settled in the 19th century in Kabul as court musicians. Several of his close family members, including his brothers and his father are/were also famous musicians in their own right. Both he and his brothers appeared regularly on Afghan Television and Radio prior to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent wars. He accompanied regularly other famous Afghan musicians like Ahmad Zahir and Ustad Mahwash on his tabla. He was the teacher and mentor of Ustad Mahwash, the first Afghan female master musician and Zuleikha, a US American dancer and artist. He mastered many different traditional Afghan instruments, but his greatest passion was for the tabla, his mastership of which was supreme. Following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan he had to flee his home country and emigrated to Germany where he died in 1994, killed by one of his former students for reasons unknown.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kabul.
Birth place
Germany.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Mohammad Hashem Cheshti”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1246421: Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
General reference · Wikidata
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,438 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Mohamed HamakiPerson
- Mohamed MounirPerson
- Mohammad Din ZakhilPerson
- Mohammad EsfahaniPerson
- Mohammad Hussain SarahangPerson
- Mohammad Mehdi GoorangiPerson
- Mohammad MotamediPerson
- Mohammad OmarPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Mohammad Hashem Cheshti?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.