Mīr ʿAlī Tabrīzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Roxburgh, David J.
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Mīr ʿAlī Tabrīzī (fl. late eighth/fourteenth-early ninth/fifteenth centuries) was credited with the "invention" (waḍʿ) of the nastaʿlīq script by calligraphers of the Tīmūrid and Ṣafavid periods following the Arabic tradition of the "firsts" (awāʾil) , in which individuals were credited with the creation of a broad variety of things and practices, as well as crafts. In histories of calligraphers and calligraphy, Mīr ʿAlī Tabrīzī always stands at the head of the genealogy of nastaʿlīq ; for example, the court calligrapher Dūst Muḥammad (d. shortly after 971/1564), writing in