Darvish Muhammad

( fl Tabriz, c. 1475-1500). Illustrator. Darvish Muhammad was active at the court of the Aqqoyunlu sultans Khalil (reg 1478) and Ya`qub (reg 1478-90). His name appears in a lengthy note to a fine copy (Istanbul, Topkapi Pal. Lib., H. 762, fols 316v-317r) of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five poems'), which was completed under the patronage of a succession of Timurid and Turkoman rulers (see ISLAMIC ART,

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