Ahmad Mashhadi

[1] Mashhadi learnt calligraphy art in Herat under Mir Ali Heravi.

After that Shaybanids captured the city, both of them immigrated to Bukhara.

After Heravi's death, he worked some time as a scrivener in the library of Abdolaziz Khan Ozbak.

When Abdolaziz Khan died, he came back to his home town.

He worked there as a scrivener in the court of Tahmasp I and his successor Ismail II.

A calligraphy specimen of two couplets from the Divan of Amir Shahi , signed by Ahmad Mashhadi, dated A.H. 978 [1570 CE]. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery