Àhmad ibn Muhàmmad

Khwaja Abu Nasr Ahmad , better known as Ahmad Shirazi , also known as Ahmad(-e) Abd al-Samad , was a Persian vizier of the Ghaznavid Sultan Mas'ud I and for the latter's son Mawdud from 1032 to 1043. Ahmad was the son of the Samanid secretary Abu Tahir Shirazi, and had a son named Abd al-Hamid Shirazi, who would also later serve as vizier. He was originally from the city of Shiraz.