influenced birth_place awards nationality patrons name works article_title birth_name
daswanth , basavan , mughal painting shiraz , iran master multan -lrb- 1584 -rrb- of the mint -lrb- 1576 -rrb- dewan of persian humayun ; akbar abd al-samad illustration of the hamzanama ; khamseh of nizami abd al-samad
 khwaja ` abd-us-samad
abd al-samad

` abd al-samad -lrb- meaning `` slave of the eternal '' -rrb- or khwaja abdus samad was a 16th-century painter of persian miniatures who moved to india and became one of the founding masters of the mughal miniature tradition , and later the holder of a number of senior administrative roles .
he is referred to as `` of shiraz '' , in modern iran .
samad 's career under the mughals , from about 1550 to 1595 , is relatively well documented , and a number of paintings are attributed to him from this period .
from about 1572 he headed the imperial workshop of the emperor akbar and `` it was under his guidance that mughal style came to maturity '' .
it has recently been contended by a leading specialist , barbara brend , that samad is the same person as mirza ali , a persian artist whose documented career seems to end at the same time as abd al-samad appears working for the mughals .
