Mohammad Reza Emami

Mohammad Reza Emami was a 17th century Persian calligrapher. He lived in the Safavid era from the reign of Abbas the Great to that of Suleiman I. He was a student of Ali Reza Abbasi and was known as the Imam of calligraphers.

Mohammad Reza Emami was Mohammad Mohsen Emami's father and Ali Naghi Emami's grandfather. All of the three calligraphers were famous for their Thuluth works in the Safavid era. Many inscriptions of the historical buildings in Isfahan, Mashhad, Qom and Qazvin have been created by them.

When Ali Reza Abbassi started to work for Abbas the Great and became his close friend, Abbas appointed him as the Thuluth script teacher of some other calligraphers like Mohammad Saleh Esfahani and Abdolbaghi Tabrizi.

He died probably in Mashhad after 50 years of working in the field of calligraphy.