Aḥmadī (fl. late eighth/forteenth-early ninth/fifteenth century) was a Chaghatay poet. He wrote the munāẓara (lit., contest, a genre of poetry) titled "Sāzlar munāẓarasi" ("Dispute of stringed instruments") in mathnawī form. He describes a dispute between stringed instruments: the tambura/tanbura argues about its advantages over other stringed instruments (ʿūd, chang, qobuz/qopuz, yatughan, rubāb/rabāb, ghijjak/gichak, kongura/kingira) . All the instruments argue with the tambura and make their arguments to show their dignity as musical instruments. At the end of the work a Ṣūfī pīr (a