At a glance
- Roles
- calligrapher
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Sheila Blair notes that later sources singled out three people as the main followers of Yaqut in Iraq: Ahmad al-Suhrawardi, Arghun al-Kamili and Nasrallah Tabib. Arghun was active over the first half of the fourteenth century and is best known for Qur'an manuscripts in rayhan. 1
In Syed Muhammad Salim
Tarikh-i Khatt o Khattatin lists him first among five pupils of Yaqut who became famous and spread "Yaqut's manner", saying he was Iranian by origin and lived in Baghdad, that the inscriptions of a Baghdad madrasa are in his hand, and that works by him are found in Tehran, Istanbul and the Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu (Hind). 2
Teamwork
Blair points out that Ibn al-Wahid in Cairo worked with a team, as his Baghdad contemporaries Ahmad al-Suhrawardi and Arghun al-Kamili did, though his team was larger: luxury Qur'ans of the period were the joint work of calligrapher, illuminator and outliner. 3
Connections
- Studied under
- Yaqut al-Musta'simi
- Lived in
- Baghdad
- Exemplifies
- Rayhan script
People and things also explored
Yaqut al-Musta'simi· Baghdad· The "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an" (707 AH/1307–8)· Poems of Khvaju Kirmani (Baghdad, 1396), British Library Add. 18113· Ibn al-Wahid (Sharaf al-Din Muhammad ibn Sharif)· Ibn Hajib al-Nu'man· Islamic Calligraphy (Sheila Blair)· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad
Sources
- Sheila S. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) , p. 333
- Syed Muhammad Salim, Tarikh-i Khatt o Khattatin, ed. Syed Aziz al-Rahman (Karachi: Zawwar Academy Publications, 1422/2001) , p. 123
- Sheila S. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) , p. 388
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Arghun ibn Abdallah al-Kamili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/arghun-al-kamili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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