Persian Painting Notes on Duust Mohammad

It is not unusual for me to stray from the conventional wisdom. I suspect that Duust-Moháammad was a teacher of the artist Abdollah in Kabul and that the Hamza-nama was started earlier than current scholarship believes. At some point I may rough out my notes on why I think so. Islamic miniatures are a bother because no one really seems to care about them at all and writing in a vacuum is dissatisfying. When I write about Oriental rugs I get reader feedback. On Islamic miniatures outside of Cary Welch there has not been one bit of discussion ever.

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The Jewel-tree, circa 1530 attributed to the artist Dust Muhammad

1549 Duust Mohammad traveled to the court of Kamran king of Kabul. Welch, Wonders of the Age. Page 194.
DUÚST-MOHAMMAD MOSAWWER by Chahryar Adle.
Prince Bahram Mirza considered Dust-Moháammad to be the greatest pupil of Bihzad.
Duust-Moháammad is thought to have accompanied Bihzad to Tabriz in 1520.

Upon the death of Ismail Duust-Moháammad remained in the service of Shah Tahmasp.

After the death of Bihzad Duust-Moháammad left the court of Shah Tahmasp.

Duust-Moháammad joined the court of Kamran, King of Kabul in the late 1530s

Mir Sayyid and Abd al-Samad arrived late 1549 and supplanted Duust-Moháammad as the leading artists of Kabul.

In 1554-55 Dust-Moháammad left Kabul to travel to India with Humayun

Dust-Moháammad died during the reign of Akbar.
DUÚST-MOHAMMAD MOSAWWER
Haftvad and the Worm c. 1540
Interlocking Arrow Tile
Mashrabiyya
Abdullah at the court in Kabul?