Ahmad Tehrani (Persian: احمد تهرانی) was a bureaucrat and poet in 16th-century Safavid Iran, who served as the kalantar (mayor) of Tehran under Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576), Ismail II (r. 1576–1577) and Mohammad Khodabanda (r. 1578–1587).
Ahmad Tehrani belonged to a family renowned for their knowledge and interest in literature, many of them occupying high positions in the government.
[1] The birth and death dates of Ahmad is unknown, it can be presumed that he lived from the 1540s to the 1590s, based on the information of the Haft eqlim by his son Amin Razi and the biographical work Tohfa-ye Sami by the Safavid prince Sam Mirza.
His brother was Khvajeh Mohammad-Sharif, a statesman and governor, who was the father of Mirza Ghiyas Beg and Mohammad-Taher Wasli, both whom served as bureaucrats and poets in the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–1627).
[2] Ahmad was among the notable locals that the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) came to know once he turned his attention to Tehran and erected a fortress around it.