Dust Muhammad

For the city in Iran, see Dust Mohammad.
For the 16th century calligrapher, see Dust Muhammad Haravi.

Dust Muhammad, also Dust Muhammad Musawwir or "Dust Muhammad the painter" (Persian: دوست محمد) was a Persian painter of miniatures, calligrapher, and art historian, active from about 1510 to 1564. Apparently a student of Bizhad, he may be best defined as an artist trained in the Timurid tradition, who further developed his style under the Safavids. Later in life he worked in Afghanistan and India, where he was called the "Mani of the Age" by Humayun. He is likely different from Dust Muhammad Haravi, who authored a preface to the Bahram Mirza Album in 1544.

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