Aḥmad Mashhadī, Mīr Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī Mashhadī (d. 986/1578), was a renowned calligrapher in the nastaʿlīq style. His father was a chandler at the shrine complex of Imām al-Riḍā in Mashhad (Pīr Budāq Munshī, 222; Qāḍī Aḥmad, Gulistān, 90).

All the biographers regard Aḥmad Mashhadī as the student of Mīr ʿAlī Harawī, but they differ as to whether he studied under him in Herat or Bukhārā: in his Qawānīn-i khuṭūṭ (written in 969/1562), Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad says, ‘When Mīr ʿAlī Harawī was in …