Sheikhzadeh
Illustration — Sermon in a mosque. The central repentant appears to be Husayn Khan Shamlu. Shaykh Zadeh was a 16th-century miniaturist in Safavid Herat.
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Sheikhzadeh
Sultan Muhammad Nur / Mahmud Muzahhib / Sheikhzadeh / Nizami Ganjavi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy · CC0
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- Timurid Empire · Khanate of Bukhara
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- illuminator · painter
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- Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād
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Illustration — Sermon in a mosque. The central repentant appears to be Husayn Khan Shamlu. Shaykh Zadeh was a 16th-century miniaturist in Safavid Herat.
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In particular, he worked on the Cartier Hafiz, a copy of the Diwan of Hafiz by the 14th century poet Hafez.
Shaykh Zadeh worked from Herat, and often collaborated with Sultan Muhammad in Tabriz, the two probably communicating by courrier. In the late 1520s, Shaykh Zadeh made two of the miniatures of the Cartier Hafiz, the Sermon in a mosque, which he signed with a small graffito, and the now-lost polo scene. Shaykh Zadeh's patron, the Herat potentate Husayn Khan Shamlu, is probably depicted in these two miniatures as a mature man with a full mustache. Feeling underappreciated, Shaykh Zadeh left Herat for the Khanate of Bukhara.
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Other miniatures
• Illustration — Laila and Majnun in School, Khamsa, Herat, 1524/1525 (MET 13.228.7) • Illustration — "Battle between Alexander and Darius", Khamsa, Herat, 1524/1525 (MET 13.228.7) • Illustration — Polo scene (lost), Cartier Hafiz, 1531 • Illustration — Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion, 1538, Bukhara
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Sultan Muhammad Nur / Mahmud Muzahhib / Sheikhzadeh / Nizami Ganjavi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
Folio from an illustrated manuscript; Codices
Sultan Muhammad Nur / Mahmud Muzahhib / Sheikhzadeh / Nizami Ganjavi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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