Nadir Mirza Of Khorasan

male, deceased (1803)
Qajar dynasty, Shahrokh, Mashhad, nadir shah, Afsharid dynasty, shah rukh…khorasan
Nadir Mirza Afshar was great-grandson of Nader Shah the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia. He was the fourth son of Shah Rukh emperor of...

Abdullah Bin Tahir Of Khorasan

male
from Neyshabur, Khurasan, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, crete, Samanids
Abdullah ibn Tahir (c. 798-844/5) was the Tahirid governor of Khurasan from 828 until his death. He is perhaps the most famous of the Tahirids....

Talha Of Khorasan

male, deceased (828)
from Neyshabur, Kharijites, Khurasan, Sistan, caliph, Al-Jazira
Talha ibn Tahir was the Tahirid governor of Khurasan from 822 until his death. In 822 Tahir ibn Husayn, who had taken control of Khurasan the...

Muhammad Of Khorasan

male, deceased (862)
from Neyshabur, Tahirid dynasty, Place of birth unknown, Khurasan, Tahirid ruler, Tahirid
Muhammad bin Tahir (d. 862) was last the Tahirid governor of Khurasan, from 862 until 873.

Tahir II of Khorasan II of Khorasan

male, deceased (862)
from Neyshabur, caliph, Samanid, Oghuz Turk, Khurasan, Sistan
Tahir bin 'Abd-Allah (d. 862) was the Tahirid governor of Khurasan from 845 until 862. During his father 'Abd-Allah's lifetime, Tahir was sent into...
Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali

male, deceased (1111)
Asharite, Jurisprudence, Mutazilite, from Tous, Shafi'is, early Muslim philosophy…khorasan
Al-Ghazali contributed significantly to the development of a systematic view of Sufism and its integration and acceptance in mainstream Islam. He...
Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
physics, mathematics, Classical humanist, Islamic medicine, Soldier, Islamic Science…Greater Khorasan, khorasan
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Karim Khan

Karim Khan

male, deceased (1779)
The representative of the subjects, Nāder Shāh Afshār, Agha Mohammad Khan, Zand dynasty, The Deputy or Regent of Peasants, The Peasants' Regent…khorasan
Karim Khan Zand, ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1760 until 1779. He founded the Zand dynasty. He never styled himself as "shah" or king, and...

Ferdowsi

male, deceased (1020)
Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Firdawsī Tūsī, national epic, From Mashad, Ghazni, shahnameh, Ghaznavid Empire…khorasan
Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Firdawsī Tūsī, more commonly transliterated as Ferdowsi is a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the "Shāh...
Nizam Al-Mulk

Nizam Al-Mulk

male, deceased (1092)
Dastur al-Wuzarā, Hashshashin, vizier, khorasan, tus, baghdad
Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk was a celebrated Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuq Empire. Born in Tus in Persia (Iran) and initially...