About Mahmud Muzahhib
Mahmud Muzahhib was an Iranian painter.
"Visit to a dervish", copy from a Gulistan of Saadi Shirazi, signed Mahmud Muzahhib. Created in Bukhara, dated 1560-61. The figure on the extreme right, wearing a band over his left eye, may have been the patron of the manuscript
Mahmud Muzahhib was a Persian painter who played a key-role in transferring the artstyle of the Timurids of Herat to the Uzbek court at Bukhara.
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Who was Mahmud Muzahhib?
Persian illustrator and illuminator
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Mahmud Muzahhib was a painter.
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Mahmud Muzahhib was Iranian.
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