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Darvish Muhammad [Darvish Muhammad]
( fl Tabriz, c. 1475–1500). Illustrator. Darvish Muhammad was active at the court of the Aqqoyunlu sultans Khalil (reg 1478) and Ya`qub (reg 1478–90). His name appears in a lengthy note to a fine copy (Istanbul, Topkapi Pal. Lib., H. 762, fols 316v–317r) of Nizami’s Khamsa (‘Five poems’), which was completed under the patronage of a succession of Timurid and Turkoman rulers (see ISLAMIC ART, §III, 4(v)(e) and fig. 124). The note recounts the complicated history of the manuscript and says that Khalil commissioned Darvish Muhammad, along with SHAYKHI, to illustrate the work. The name Darvish Muhammad also appears on three works in the two Ya`qub Beg albums (Istanbul, Topkapi Pal. Lib., H. 2153 and H. 2160). As so few works in the albums are attributed to this important painter, Robinson suggested that Darvish Muhammad be identified with Muhammad SIYAH QALAM, whose name appears on 65 works in the albums.
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