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Shams al-Dīn

Muslim painter

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Aḥmad Mūsa

In Aḥmad Mūsā
…Mūsā’s most famous pupil was Shams al-Dīn, who painted at the court of the Jalāyir sultans of Baghdad in the latter part of the 14th century.
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Junayd

In Junayd
…a pupil of the painter Shams ad-Dīn, and from 1382 to 1410 he worked in the service of Sultan Aḥmad of the Mongol Jalāyirid dynasty of Baghdad.
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