Background
His first teacher was his father Shohreh Amir, who taught him Thuluth and Naskh.
His first teacher was his father Shohreh Amir, who taught him Thuluth and Naskh.
He was a skillful Nastaliq calligrapher, who wrote bold and fine script skillfully. Later, when Rostam Ali Khorassani and Hafez Baba January went to Qazvin, he learnt Nastaliq from them. lieutenant is said that Malek Deilami was a student of Mir Ali Heravi or at least he drilled a lot from Heravi"s works.
Ibrahim Mirza, who was Bahram Mirza"s son and Sam Mirza"s nephew, was an art lover from the house of Safavids.
He was not an ambitious man and because of it he was favorite of Tahmasp I. Ibrahim Mirza married to the Shah"s daughter, Gohar Solatn, in 1556. He was appointed governor of Mashhad, where was the living and burial place of his father.
This event shouldn"t be later than 1561. In this time, he was writing the manuscript of Jami"s Haft Awrang, which became one of the most famous manuscripts.
This manuscript is kept in Freer Gallery of Art in Washington Doctorate. C.
Writing this book with its 28 miniatures took 9 years and Deylami"s successors like Moheb Ali Neynavaz Heravi, Rostam Ali and Molana Eyshi Heravi and Shah Mahmoud Neishabouri finished the calligraphy of the book Mir Emad, the greatest Nastaliq calligrapher in the history, learnt Nastaliq from Malek Deylami for a while. His other notable students were as follows:
Mohammad Hossein Tabrizi
Shah Mohammad Mashhadi
Molana Eyshi Heravi
Ghotb ed-Din Yazdi
Soltan Ibrahim Mirza
Mir Sadr ed-Din Mohammad.