At a glance
- Roles
- calligrapher
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- South Asia
Summary
Darayat Khan's real name was Abdallah; he was the son of Kifayat Khan and, like his father, attached to the Mughal court. He learned shikasta from his father and then, through practice, devised a style of his own called "Darayat Khani". 1
Standing
Tarikh-i Khatt o Khattatin says masters of the art agree that he wrote better than his father, and that Ghulam Muhammad, author of the Tazkira-i Khushnavisan, praised him so highly as to say that had Mir Ali Tabrizi lived to see Darayat Khan's hand he would have forgotten his own nasta'liq. A specimen of his hand is preserved in the Bayaz of Bakhtawar Khan. 1
Connections
- Child of
- Kifayat Khan (Muhammad Ja'far Khan), calligrapher
- Studied under
- Kifayat Khan (Muhammad Ja'far Khan), calligrapher
- Exemplifies
- Shikasta script
People and things also explored
Shikasta script· Kifayat Khan (Muhammad Ja'far Khan), calligrapher· Abd al-Majid Taliqani· Muhammad Shafi' Haravi (Shafi'a)· Aurangzeb (Alamgir I)· Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Ahmadnagar painting· Proportional script and the six pens (al-aqlam al-sitta)
Sources
- Syed Muhammad Salim, Tarikh-i Khatt o Khattatin, ed. Syed Aziz al-Rahman (Karachi: Zawwar Academy Publications, 1422/2001) , p. 153
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islam.museum contributors. “Darayat Khan (Abdallah), calligrapher”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/darayat-khan-calligrapher/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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