Ahmad Monshi Ghomi, also known as Ghazi Ahmad, was a

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author and

calligrapher Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

. He was the son of ''Sharaf ed-Din Hossein Ghomi'', who was the

scrivener A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. This usually indicated secretarial and admini ...

Sam Mirza Safavi Abolnasr Sam Mirza Safavi (16 October 1517 – 1566) was a Safavid prince, a son of king (''shah'') Ismail I (r. 1501–1514). He was an art lover and was the author of the book ''Tazkare ye Sami'' or ''Tohfe ye Sami'' about poetry and poets. Care ...

Herat Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd ...

. Ghazi Ahmad was born in 1547 in

Qom Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...

. When he was 11 years old, he moved with his father to

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

and spent 20 years in that city. Under protection of

Ibrahim Mirza Prince Ibrahim Mirza, Solṭān Ebrāhīm Mīrzā, in full Abu'l Fat'h Sultan Ibrahim Mirza ( fa, ابوالفتح سلطان ابراهیم میرزا) (April 1540 – 23 February 1577) was a Persian prince of the Safavid dynasty, who was a favo ...

, he took lessons from the famous masters like

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, Mir

Ahmad Mashhadi Ahmad Mashhadi, also known as Mir Seyyed Ahmad, was an important Persian Nastaliq calligrapher in the 16th century. He was from Mashhad. He was also a poet and some of his original poems still exist. Biography Mashhadi learnt calligraphy art in ...

and

Malek Deylami Molana Malek Deylami (1518 in Qazvin - 1562 in Qazvin) was a Persian scrivener and calligrapher in the 16th century. He was a skillful Nastaliq calligrapher, who wrote bold and fine script skillfully. Biography His first teacher was his father '' ...

until the age of 31. Ebrahim Mirza was a well-educated man in the field of art and science and some of prominent poets,

s and painters worked in his library. Ghazi Ahmad spent his youth in the art circles of Ebrahim Mirza's court. He had also relations with many painting and calligraphy masters out of Ebrahim mirza's library and because of this he could recounted many details about the artists' lives in the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

era. His works, Golestan-e Honar, introduces artists, whom he knew personally or knew about them by other trusted persons. He has other books like ''Kholassat ot-Tavarikh'', which is the history of Safavid dynasty from

Safi-ad-din Ardabili Safi-ad-din Ardabili ( fa, شیخ صفی‌الدین اردبیلی ''Ṣāfī ad-Dīn Isḥāq Ardabīlī''; 1252/3 – 1334) was a poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master. He was the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the Sufi master Zahed Gilan ...

to the early period of Abbas I, and also ''Majma osh-Shoara'' and ''Managheb of-Fozala''. In 1599, Abbas I got angry at Ghazi Ahmad and ordered his dismissal. After he was dismissed he went to Ghom. In 1607, he met ''Molana Mohammad Amir Aghili Rostamdari Ardebili'', who was a well-known calligrapher in that time. Ghazi Ahmad wrote about him in Golestan-e Honar.

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{{Authority control People from Qom Iranian calligraphers 16th-century writers of Safavid Iran 16th-century Iranian painters 16th-century Iranian writers 1547 births Year of death missing