Mīr Sayyid Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Roxburgh, David J.
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Mīr Sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Mashhadī (d. 986/1578-9) is known chiefly as a calligrapher but also composed poetry and an album preface (dībācha) . All of the written sources identify his teacher as the tenth/sixteenth-century master Mīr ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī Harawī. Details about his life are provided by Qāḍī Aḥmad in his Gulistān-i hunar (c.1005-15/1597-1606). Qāḍī Aḥmad was one of his students and once owned specimens of calligraphy (qiṭaʿ) , samples of single letters (mufradāt) , and an album (muraqqaʿ) by him. Qāḍī