Shaykh Zadeh

Shaykh Zadeh was a 16th-century miniaturist in Safavid Herat. In particular, he worked on the Cartier Hafiz, a copy of the Diwan of Hafiz by the 14th century poet Hafez.

Works

Shaykh Zadeh worked from Herat, and often collaborated with Sultan Muhammad in Tabriz, the two probably communicating by courrier. In the late 1520s, Shaykh Zadeh made two of the miniatures of the Cartier Hafiz, the Sermon in a mosque, which he signed with a small graffito, and the now-lost polo scene. Shaykh Zadeh's patron, the Herat potentate Husayn Khan Shamlu, is probably depicted in these two miniatures as a mature man with a full mustache.
Feeling underappreciated, Shaykh Zadeh left Herat for the Khanate of Bukhara.