Classic Copyists and Illustrators in Islam .......... BOOKS CATEGORY

‘Abd al-Raḥmān Faḍl Allāh al-Kāshānī

عبد الرحمان فضل الله الكاشانى

Copyist of MS P 27, items 1-3, in 1138 [=1721]

Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Masīḥī, Shams al-Dawlah

شمس الدوله ابو الفضل ابن ابى الحسن المسيحى

Copyist of MS A 69 in 668 [=1269] and recipient of certificate certifying accuracy and qualification to teach.

Aḥmad ibn Bakr ‘Alawān

احمد ابن بكر علوان

Copyist of MS A 10 copied in 1163 [=1750]

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl al-Ghazzī ‘urifa bi-al-Balmūfī

احمد ابن محمد اسماعيل الغزى عرف بالبلموفى

Copyist of MS A 32 in 957 [=1550]

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Salāwī

see al-Salāwī

Aḥmad ibn Ṣafar, ṭabīb bi-dār Üsküdār

[احمد ابن صفر طبيب بدار اسكدار [ ساكن بمدينة اسكدار / اسكدارى

Copyist of MS A 83/II, in 1087 [=1676-7], and MS A 83/I, item 1, in 1097 [=1685-6], working in Üsküdār, a suburb of Istanbul

al-Akhrawī

see Muḥammad ibn shaykh ..?.. ibn shaykh ‘Umar al-Akhrawī

‘Alawān

see Aḥmad ibn Bakr ‘Alawān

‘Alī ibn al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ḥaṭib al-Ḥaḍarī al-Mudarris al-Shāfi‘ī

على ابن الشيخ احمد الحطب الحضرى المدرس الشافعى

Copyist of MS A 45 in 1038 [=1629]

‘Alī ibn Mu‘īn ibn Aḥmad

على ابن معين ابن احمد

Copyist of MS A 67 in 810 [=1407]

Ardistānī,

see Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad kātib-i muqim-i Iṣfahān al-mashhūr bi-Ardistānī

al-Balmūfī,

see Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ismā’īl al-Ghazzī ‘urifa bi-al-Balmūfī

al-Darawī,

see Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī

al-Dasūqī,

see Ibrāhīm al-Dasūqī

al-Ḥājj Muḥammad

الحاج محمد

Copyist of MS A 78 (undated, ca. 18th century)

al-Ḥakīm al-Lādhaqī,

see Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-shahīr bi-al-ḥakīm al-Lādhaqī

Ḥakīm Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Mu’akhkhir Hamdānī

حكيم محمد رضا ابن محمد مؤخر همدانى

Copyist of MS A 28 in 1078 [=1667-8]

al-Ḥalwānī,

see Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalwānī al-Shāfi‘ī

Hamdānī,

see Ḥakīm Muḥammad Riḍa ibn Muḥammad Mu’akhkhir Hamdānī

Ḥannā ibn Jurjis Ṣarūf

حنا بن جرجس صروف

Copyist of MS A 71 in AD 1830 in Damascus

Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad kātib-i muqim-i Iṣ;fahān al-mashhūr bi-Ardistānī

حسن ابن احمد كاتب مقم اصفهان المشهور باردستانى

Copyist of MS P 18 in 894 [=1488]

Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-..?.. Mūsavī

حسين ابن عبد ال..؟.. موسوى

Copyist of MS P 12 in 1144 [=1732]

Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Walī ibn Naṣr ... ibn Ḥusayn al-Ḥanafī  

حسين ابن ابراهيم ابن ولى ابن نصر [ ...] ابن حسين الحنفى

Author and copyist of MS A 50 in 1001 [=1593]

al-Ībī al-Ḥanafī,

see Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ībī al-Ḥanafī

Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīm Muḥammad Samī‘ al-ṭabīb

ابن عبد العظيم محمد سميع الطبيب

Copyist of MS P 11 in 1248 [=1832]

Ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Zayn al-Dīn ‘Alī

ابن محمد اسماعيل زين الدين على

Copyist of MS P 5.1 in 1159 [=1746]

Ibrāhīm

... ابراهسم ...

Copyist of MS P 4 in 1131 [=1719]

Ibrāhīm al-Dasūqī (Egyptian philologist, d. 1883)

ابراهيم الدسوقى

Copyist of MS A 52 in 1259 [=1843]

Ibrāhīm al-Ḥusaynī [or al-Ḥusnī] al-Nūrbakhshī

اراهيم الحسينى [الحسنى ؟] النوربخشى

Copyist of MS A 43 (undated)

Iṣfahānī,

see Muḥammad Rafī‘ ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tabrīzī muwalladan-al-Iṣfahānī musakinan

al-Istanbūlī,

see Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafá al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī

Kamāl al-Dīn al-Kirmānī,

see Mas‘ūd ibn mullanā Mas‘ūd ibn ‘Alī mulaqqab bi-Kamāl al-Dīn al-Kirmānī

Kāshānī,

see ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Faḍl Allāh al-Kāshānī

al-Khaymī,

see Khiḍr ibn ‘Īsá al-ma‘rūf bi-al-Khaymī

Khiḍr ibn ‘Īsá al-ma‘rūf bi-al-Khaymī

خضر ابن عيسى المعروف بالخيمى

Coypist and compiler of MS A 47 (undated; between late 15th century and 1745)

al-Lādhaqī,

see Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-shahīr bi-al-Ḥakīm al-Lādhaqī

Luṭf [Allah]

[لطف [الله

Copyist of MS A 18.1 in 885 [=1480]

Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ībī al-Ḥanafī

محمود ابن محمد الايبى الحنفي

Copyist of MS A 90 in 1241 [=1826]

al-Masīḥī,

see Tawmā ibn Yūsuf ibn Sarkis al-Masīḥī

al-Masīḥī,

see Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Masīḥī

Mas‘ūd ibn mullānā Mas‘ūd ibn ‘Alī mulaqqab bi-Kamāl al-Dīn al-Kirmānī

مسعود ابن ملانا مسعود ابن على ملقب بكمال الدين الكرمانى

Copyist of MS A 84, item 1, in 971 [=1564]

MuḤammad, al-Ḥājj

الحاج محمد

Copyist of MS A 78 (undated, ca. 18th century)

Muḥammad ‘Āḍil al-Ṭabāṭ abā’ī al-ṭabīb

محمد عادل الطباطبائى الطبيب

Copyist of MS A 26 in 1138 [=1725-6]

Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī

محمد هيكل الدروى

Copyist of MS A 14 in 1180 [=1766]

Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-mulaqqab bi-al-Shams al-Tasatturī al-mutaṭabbib

محمد ابن عبد الله الملقب باشمس التسترى المتطبب

Copyist of MS A 1.1, item 1, in 740 [=1340]

Muḥammad ibn Gharīb al-Ṣūfī

محمد ابن غريب الصوفى

Copyist of MS A 82, item 1, in 1012 [=1604]

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalwānī al-Shāfi‘ī

محمد ابن ابراهيم الحلوانى الشافعى

Copyist of MS A 35 in 1001 [= 1593]

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Af..?.. al-Ḥanafī

محمد ابن محمد الافـ؟ـ الحنفى

Copyist of MS A 30 in 1241 [=1826]

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-shahīr bi-al-Ḥakīm al-Lādhaqī

محمد ابن محمد محمود الشهير بالحكيم اللاذقى

Copyist of MS A 92, item 5, in 1154 [=1741]

Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad

محمد ابن موسى ابن محمد

Copyist of MS A 82, item 3, in 1012 [=1604]

Muḥammad ibn shaykh ..?.. ibn shaykh ‘Umar al-Akhrawī

محمد ابن شيخ ..؟.. ابن شيخ عمر الاخروى

Copyist of MS A 72 in 1045 [=1636]

Muḥammad Mu’min ibn Shams al-Dīn ‘Alī ... ?

محمد مؤمن ابن شمس الدين على ..؟

Copyist of MS P 5 in 1089 [=1679]

Muḥammad Rafī‘ ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tabrīzī muwalladan wa-al-Iṣfahānī musakinan

محمد رفيع ابن عبد الله التبريزى مولدا والاصفهانى مسكنا

Copyist of MS A 56 in 1116 [=1705]

Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Mu’akhkhir Hamdānī,

see Ḥakīm Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Mu’akhkhir Hamdānī

Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muṣṭafā al-Anṭākī al-Istanbūlī al-Ḥanafī

محمد صادق بن مصطفى الانطاكى الاستنبولى الحنفى

Copyist of MS A 65 in 1123 [=1712]

al-Munāwānī,

see ‘Umar Suwaydān al-Munāwānī

Mūsavī,

see Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd al-..?.. Mūsavī

Muṣṭafá Dars ‘Ām Yūsuf Zādah al-shahīr bi-al-Shirwānī

مصطفى درس عام يوسف زاده الشهير بالشروانى

Copyist and translator of MS A 42 in 1166 [=1752]

Nakhshabī, Ziyā’ [or Ziyā’ al-Dīn]

ضياء [ضياء الدين] نخشبى

Possibly illustrator as well as compiler of MS P 24, item 1 (undated; 18th century ?)

Qāsim ‘Alī Tajm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Yāfaqī

قاسم على تجم الدين محمود اليافقى

Copyist of MS P 14 in 992 [=1584]

Rājah Rāmah

راجه رامه

Copyist of MS P 1.1 in 1268 [=1851]

al-Rasanāwī ibn Ismā‘īl,

see Yūsuf al-Rasanāwī ibn Ismā‘īl

Ṣadr al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib

صدر الدين المتطبب

Copyist of MS P 28, item 1 in 959 [=1552]

al-Salāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Salāwī

احمد ابن محمد السلاوى

Copyist of MS A 31 (autograph copy) in 1229 [=1814]

Salīm

سليم

Copyist of MS A 91, item 5 (undated; 18th century?)

Samī‘ al-ṭabīb,

see Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīm Muḥammad Samī‘ al-ṭabīb

Sam‘ī Muṣṭafá Efendi al-Shā‘ir

سمعى مصطفى افندى الشاعر

Copyist of MS A 13 in 1162 [=1749]

Ṣarūf,

see Ḥannā ibn Jurjis Ṣarūf

Sayyid Ḥusayn Yazdī

سيد حسين يزدى

Copyist of MS P 29 (with portrait of copyist)

al-Shā‘ir,

see Sam‘ī Muṣṭafá al-Shā‘ir

Shams al-Dawlah Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Masīḥī

see Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Masīḥī

al-Shams al-Tasatturī,

see Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-mulaqqab bi-al-Shams al-Tasatturī al-mutaṭabbib

Shaykh Muḥammad

شيخ محمد

Artist of miniature in MS P 24, folio 18b (undated; 18th century ?)

al-Shirwānī,

see Muṣṭafá Dars ‘Ām Yūsuf Zādah al-shahīr bi-al-Shirwānī

al-Ṣūfī,

see Muḥammad ibn Gharīb al-Ṣūfī

al-Tasatturī,

see Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-mulaqqab bi-al-Shams al-Tasatturī al-mutatabbib

al-Ṭabāṭabā’ī,

see Muḥammad ‘Āḍil al-Ṭabāṭabā’ī al-ṭabīb

Tawmā ibn Yūsuf ibn Sarkis al-Masīḥī

توما ابن يوسف ابن سركس المسيحى

Copyist of MS A 26.1 in 604 [=1208]

‘Umar Sawaydān al-Munāwānī

عمر سويدان المناوانى

Copyist of MS A 2 in 1146 [=1733]

Üsküdār, Aḥmad ibn Ṣafar

see Aḥmad ibn Ṣafar, ṭabīb bi-dār Üsküdār

Yūsuf al-Rasnawī ibn Ismā‘īl

يوسف الرسنوى ابن اسماعيل

Copyist of MS A 88/IV in Istanbul in 1206 [=1792]

and MS A 88/III in 1217 [=1802-3]

al-Yāfaqī,

see Qāsim ‘Alī Tajm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Yāfaqī