Ahmad Shirazi

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. Provided by Wikipedia