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Nastaʿlīq script from Laylā wa Majnūn, calligraphy by ʿAlī Mashhādī, 1506; in the India Office Library, London (MS Ethe 1204, fol. 5r).
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Mīr ʿAlī of Tabriz
Islamic calligrapher