Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Nairīzī

Mirza Aḥmad an-Nairīzī (ca. 1650–1747) is the last of the classical Iranian calligrahers. Informations are hard to find, because often under Neyrizi or Nayrizi.
(the last image shows on the right:   part of a page (start of Surat an-Nisāʾ) from the splendid reprint offered to important guests of the Islamic Republic.

unlike the reprints above the images below are from Merkaz Ṭab-o-Našr in their reformed spelling:

on the right: the letters in light brown are not pronounced "as such":
either not at all or not as ī, but ā, not as ū, but u ...
(note that the "typesetter" on the right made a typical Persian mistake:
he typed "space" after /wa-/und – may he'll find forgive­ness)

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