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Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani
Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani (عبد القاهر الجرجاني) was an Arabic grammarian and rhetorician from Gorgan, Iran, who died there in 1078 and wrote Dala'il al-i'jaz and Asrar al-balagha.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (عبد الرحمن الصوفي) was a Persian astronomer, 903 to 986, who served the Buyid ruler Adud al-Dawla and wrote the Book on the Constellations of the Fixed Stars.
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (أبو الفرج الأصفهاني) was a tenth-century Arab litterateur, genealogist, and music historian of Baghdad, best known for the encyclopedic Kitab al-Aghani (The Book of Songs).
Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani
Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer at the Buyid court in Baghdad who introduced the tangent function and died in 998.
Abu Dulaf al-Khazraji
Abu Dulaf al-Khazraji (أبو دلف الخزرجي) was a tenth-century Arab traveler, poet, and court companion who served the Samanid and Buyid amirs and wrote two travel accounts.
Abu Firas al-Hamdani
Abu Firas al-Hamdani (أبو فراس الحمداني) was an Arab prince and poet of the Hamdanid dynasty, cousin of Sayf al-Dawla, known for his captivity poems.
Abu Ishaq al-Sabi
Abu Ishaq al-Sabi (أبو إسحاق الصابئ), born Ibrahim ibn Hilal, was a tenth-century Sabian chancery secretary, historian, and poet serving the Abbasid caliphs and Buyid princes in Baghdad.
Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi
Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi (أبو سعيد السيرافي) was a tenth-century grammarian, judge, and polymath from Siraf who worked in Baghdad and is remembered for his commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab.
Abu'l-Hasan al-'Amiri
Abu'l-Hasan al-'Amiri (أبو الحسن العامري) was a tenth-century Muslim philosopher of Khorasan who died at Nishapur in 992, standing between al-Farabi and Avicenna and serving the Buyid and Samanid courts.
Ahsan al-Taqasim
Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim is a celebrated Arabic geography of the Islamic world by al-Muqaddasi, based on his own travels, completed in 985 and revised in 988.
Al-Amidi
Al-Amidi (الآمدي), in full Abu al-Qasim al-Hasan ibn Bishr al-Amidi, was an Arab grammarian and literary critic who died in Basra in 981, best known for the Muwazana comparing the poets Abu Tammam and al-Buhturi.
al-Daraqutni
al-Daraqutni (الدارقطني) was a leading hadith scholar and critic of Baghdad who lived from about 918 to 995 and wrote Kitab al-Ilal on the hidden defects of hadith.
Al-Hariri of Basra
Al-Hariri of Basra (الحريري البصري) was an Arab poet, philologist, and government official of Basra who lived 1054 to 1122 and wrote the Maqamat, fifty rhymed-prose narratives.
al-Istakhri
al-Istakhri (الاصطخري) was a 10th-century Muslim geographer from Istakhr in Iran whose Book of Routes and Realms, with twenty-one maps, founded a distinctive school of Islamic cartography.
Al-Kamil fi al-tarikh
Al-Kamil fi al-tarikh (الكامل في التاريخ, "The Complete History") is an Arabic universal chronicle by the Mosul historian Ibn al-Athir, running from creation to 1231.
Al-Karaji
Al-Karaji (الكرجي) was a mathematician and engineer who wrote his main works in Baghdad under Buyid rule around 1000, best known for the algebra treatise al-Fakhri and a groundwater manual.
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (الخطيب البغدادي) was an Abbasid hadith scholar, historian, and Shafi'i jurist, 1002 to 1071, best known for the fourteen-volume biographical dictionary Ta'rikh Baghdad.
al-Marzubani
Al-Marzubani (المرزباني) was a tenth-century Abbasid philologist, historian, and anthologist of Baghdad who died in 994; his surviving works include Mu'jam al-Shu'ara, a dictionary of poets.
Al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (الماوردي) was a Shafi'i jurist, judge, and political theorist of the Abbasid caliphate, born in Basra around 974 and died in Baghdad in 1058, known for the Ordinances of Government.
al-Muntazam
Al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa al-Umam (المنتظم) is a universal chronicle by Ibn al-Jawzi of Baghdad, narrating history year by year with over 2,500 biographies, and a reference for later historians.
al-Muqaddasi
Al-Muqaddasi (المقدسي) was a tenth-century Arab geographer born in Jerusalem who traveled most of the Islamic world and wrote Ahsan al-Taqasim, completed around 985, a principal Arabic geographical work.
Al-Quhi
Al-Quhi (الكوهي), fully Abu Sahl Wijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi, was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, born around 940, who directed the Baghdad observatory opened in 988.
al-Samaw'al
Al-Samaw'al (السموأل بن يحيى المغربي) was a Baghdad-born mathematician, astronomer, and physician who wrote the algebra treatise al-Bahir fi'l-jabr at age 19 and converted to Islam in 1163.
Al-Sanawbari
Al-Sanawbari (الصنوبري) was a tenth-century Arab poet who served Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo and was the first Arab poet to write odes on nature and flowers.
al-Sharif al-Murtada
Al-Sharif al-Murtada (الشريف المرتضى), also known as Sayyid al-Murtada, was a leading Shia scholar of Baghdad in theology, literature, and poetry, living from 966 to 1044 under the Abbasids and Buyids.
Al-Sijzi
Al-Sijzi (السجزي) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer born in Sijistan around 945 who left about 40 mathematical works, took part in solar observations at Shiraz in 969–970, and died around 1020.
al-Tanukhi
al-Tanukhi (التنوخي) was an Abbasid judge and litterateur, born in Basra and died in Baghdad, who served the Buyids and wrote two lasting anthologies of stories.
Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal (علي بن عيسى الكحال) was an oculist of Baghdad who wrote the Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin, the oldest surviving Arabic work on the eye.
Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (بديع الزمان الهمذاني) was an Arabic prose writer and poet, born in Hamadan and died in Herat in 1008, best known as the inventor of the maqama.
Hilal al-Sabi
Hilal al-Sabi (هلال الصابئ) was a Baghdadi chancery official, historian, and man of letters, 970 to 1056, who headed the Abbasid caliphal chancery under Baha al-Dawla and wrote a continuation of al-Tabari's history.