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[Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Kamāl al-Sabzavārī] (d Qazvin, c. 1588). Persian calligrapher and illustrator. Son of a master calligrapher who specialized in religious manuscripts, he studied with the painter and chronicler Dust Muhammad, who mentioned Shaykh Muhammad as one of the calligraphers working in the royal library of the Safavid monarch Tahmasp I (reg 1524–76). The chroniclers Qazi Ahmad and Iskandar Munshi wrote that Shaykh Muhammad had a good nasta‛līo hand and could produce replicas of earlier masters. They also cited his skill in portraiture and reported that he was in service to Tahmasp’s nephew Ibrahim Mirza, first when he was Governor at Mashhad in 1556, then during his exile at Sabzevar (1567–74), and finally when the prince moved to western Iran; most of Shaykh Muhammad’s signed and dated works are from this period. They include two calligraphic pieces dated 1562–3 and 1568–9 (Istanbul, Topkapı Pal. Lib., H. 2137, fol. 18v, and H. 2151, fol. 39...