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...
Ismail Samani

Ismail Samani

male, deceased (907)
Isma'il ibn Ahmad (d. November 907) was the Samanid amir of Transoxiana (892-907) and Khurasan (900-907). His reign saw the emergence of the...
Rudaki

Rudaki

male, deceased (941)
Abdullah Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki (Tajik Абӯабдуллоҳ Ҷафар Ибн Муҳаммад Рӯдакӣ, Persian ابوعبدالله جعفربن محمدبن حکیم‌بن عبدالرحمن‌بن آدم رودک...

Abu Sa'Id

male, deceased (1469)
Abu Sa'id (Herat, 1424 - 1469), was a Timurid Empire ruler in today parts of Iran and Afghanistan and member of the Timurid dynasty. Abu Sa'id was...
Nasrullah Khan

Nasrullah Khan

male
Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Bukhara from 1826 to 1860, a time when the Central Asian states were under pressure from the advance of Russia from the...
Muhammad Shaybani

Muhammad Shaybani

male, deceased (1510)
Abu 'I-Fath Muhammad, known in later centuries as Shaybani Khan (c. 1451 - 1510), was a khan of the Uzbeks (1500-10) who continued consolidating...
An Lushan

An Lushan

male, deceased (757)
An Lushan (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence by fighting during the...
Il-Arslan

Il-Arslan

male, deceased (1172)
Il-Arslan was Khwarazm Shah from 1156 until his death. He was the son of Atsïz. In 1152 Il-Arslan was made governor of Jand, an outpost on the Syr D...

Bahram V

male, deceased (438)
Bahram V was fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia (421-438). Also called Bahramgur, he was son of Yazdegerd I (399-421), after whose sudden death (or...
Bulleh Shah

Bulleh Shah

male
Bulleh Shah, whose real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Sufi poet and humanist. He is believed to have been born in the small village of Uch,...