Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili

Aḥmad ibn 'Umar al-Dhakī al-Mawṣilī was a 13th-century metalworker from Mosul, now in Iraq. He is known from three surviving works over a period of about 20 years from 1223 to 1242–43.: 286–7  He operated an atelier (workshop) with his ghulam Abu Bakr Umar ibn Hajji Jaldak (probably not a slave but more of an assistant).: 286, 317  The epithet "al-Dhaki" means "the sagacious".: 311 

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