Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Hashem Aghajari

Hashem Aghajari

male
Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government. He was convicted of apostasy and...
Ali Hamadani

Ali Hamadani

male
Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani was a Persian physician who lived before 1546CE and was from Hamadan. Sayyid Ali Hamdani composed a brief Persian essay on ph...
Ehsan Yarshater

Ehsan Yarshater

male, 89 years old
Ehsan Yarshater (born April 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran) is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of...

Mani

male
Mani. It combines a hagiographic account of Mani's career and spiritual development with information about Mani’s religious teachings and co...

Shams Al-Daula

male, deceased (1021)
Abu Taher was the Buyid ruler of Hamadan from 997 to 1021. He was the son of Fakhr al-Daula. Fakhr al-Daula died in 997; his elder son Abu Taleb...

Seyyedeh Khatun

female, deceased (1029)
Seyyedeh Khatun (d. 1029) was a sultaness of Buwayhids (Diylamids) of Ray (Rages), Isfahan and Hamadan (Buwayhid dynasty of Iran). After the death...
Arsames Of Persia

Arsames Of Persia

male
Arsames (Aršāma, modern Persian: ارشام‎, Greek: ; - ca. 520 BC) was the son of Ariaramnes and perhaps briefly the king of Persia during the Ach...

Fakhr Al-Daula

male, deceased (997)
Fakhr al-Daula (Arabic: فخر الدولة was the Buyid amir of Jibal (976-980, 984-997), Hamadan (984-997) and Gurgan and Tabaristan (984-997). He was th...
Abu Tammam

Abu Tammam

male, deceased (845)
Abu Tammam (Habib ibn Aus) Arabic, أبو تمام حبيب بن أوس was an Arab poet of the tribe of Tayy (though some say he was the son of a Christian apothe...