Baysunghur Mirza

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1. 1397–1410Herat · AfghanistanBaysunghur was born in Herat, son of Shah Rukh and Gawhar Shad. During the imperial succession struggles of 1405–1410 he accompanied his father in Khorasan, receiving training in Persian literature and calligraphy that laid the foundation for his later patronage of court arts.
2. 1410–1433Herat · AfghanistanBaysunghur long served as chancellor and headed the royal workshop at Herat, recruiting leading figures such as Khvājam al-Dīn b. Hayām al-Gurī and organizing the production and illustration of major works including the Shāhnāma. He was himself a renowned calligrapher, and his patronage made Herat a major center of book arts in the fifteenth-century Islamic world.