Aḥmad Shāmlū, son of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shāmlū-yi Mashhadī (d. 1264/1848), a master-calligrapher of the naskh script. In addition to the naskh script, he also practised all the other well-known scripts and styles, being skilled in nastaʿlīq and outstanding in shikastah (Bayānī, Aḥwāl, 1/40). He is considered one of the followers of the style of Aḥmad Nayrīzī (q.v.), who perfected the technique of naskh (Bayānī, ‘Khaṭṭ’, 1/772). Aḥmad was special calligrapher to Muḥammad Walī Mīrzā, son of Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh Qājār, and tutored him i…