List of Iranian scientists and scholars

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List of Iranian scientists and scholars

following is a non-comprehensive list of Iran

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples are an ethnic and linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Iranian plateau and beyond in central-, southern-, and southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe....
ian scientists and engineers that lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.

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A polymath is a person whose knowledge is not restricted to one subject area. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable....
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Chemistry

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A

Abdol-Hamid
Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa

Abu-Muhammad Abd-Allah Ruzbeh ibn Daduya/Dadoe , mostly known as Ibn al-Muqaffa? or Ruzbeh pur-e Daduya , was an 8th-century Persian people thinker and Arabic language author and translator, and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam....
, founder of Arabic prose along with the fellow Persian Ibn Muqaffa
Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa

Abu-Muhammad Abd-Allah Ruzbeh ibn Daduya/Dadoe , mostly known as Ibn al-Muqaffa? or Ruzbeh pur-e Daduya , was an 8th-century Persian people thinker and Arabic language author and translator, and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam....
.
Abdulrahman, Sheikh Muhammad, physician.
Amiri-simkooei, Alireza, Geodesist, university of Isfahan
Abhari
Al-Abhari

Athir al-Din Mufa??al b. ?Umar Abhari was a Persian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician from the city of Abhar in Persia. His works include* : a book dealing with a complete cycle of Hikmat, i.e., logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics....
, mathematician.
Abu Nasr e Mansur
Abu Nasr Mansur

Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq was a was a Persian people Mathematics in medieval Islam. He is well known for discovering the sine law.Abu Nasr Mansur was born in Gilan, History of Iran, to the ruling family of Khwarezm, the "Banu Iraq"....
, mathematician.
Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurajani
Abu Wafa Buzjani
Abul Wáfa

'Abul Wafa Buzjani' , extended name: was a Persians mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Buzhgan, in Iran.In 959 AD, he moved to Iraq....
, mathematician.
Azod al-Dowleh
'Adud al-Daula

A?ud al-Dawla or Azod od-Dowleh Fana Khusraw was an emir of the Buwayhid dynasty in Iran and Iraq. He is widely regarded as the greatest emir of the dynasty....
, prominent scientific patron
Ahmad ibn Farrokh
Ahmad ibn Farrokh

Ahmad ibn Farrukh, also written Ahmad-i Farrokh, was a 12th century Persian people physician from Herat.He was one of the teachers of Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani....
, physician.
Ahmad Ibn Imad ul-din
Ahmad Ibn Imad ul-din

Ahmad ibn Imad al-din, was a Persian physician and alchemist. It is not known when exactly he lived.He was the author of an alchemical treatise titled On the Art of the Elixir which is preserved in the National Library of Medicine....
, physician and chemist.
Ala'eddin
Aladdin (disambiguation)

Aladdin is a story of medieval Arabian origin in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.Aladdin may also refer to:In modern culture:...
, constructed the Counterweight Trebuchet for Kubilai. He was thus honoured in the official history of China's Yuan Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
.
Alavi Shirazi
Alavi Shirazi

Hakim Muhammad Hashim muslim ibn Hakim Muhammad Hadi Qalandar ibn Muzaffar al-Din ?Alavi Shirazi , with the royal title Alavi Khan Nawwab Mu?tamad al-Muluk, was a royal Persian physician of the 18th century....
, royal physician to India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
.
Al-Farghani
Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali

Abu ?amid Mu?ammad ibn Mu?ammad al-Ghazali was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia. He was an Islamic theology, Fiqh, Islamic philosophy, Islamic astronomy, Islamic psychology and Sufism of Persian people origin, and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sunni Islamic thought....
Alhazen, or Ebne Heisam in Persian.
Al-Qumri
Al-Qumri

Abu Mansur al-Hasan ibn Nuh al-Qumri was a Persian people physician of the 10th century who lived in Khorasan. Qumri was the teacher of Avicenna....
, a Persian physician.
Amuli, Muhammad ibn Mahmud
Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli

Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from Mazandaran, Iran.He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi....
, physician.
Abu Ja'far al-Khazin
An Shihkao
Aqa-Kermani
Muhammad Aqa-Kermani

Muhammad Aqa-Kermani also written Aqkirmani was an 18th century Persian physician from Kerman, Iran.Little is known of Muhammad Aqkirmani's life except that he was active around the year 1747....
, physician.
Aqsara'i
Aqsara'i

Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad Aqsara'i, also written al-Aqsara'i, was a 14th century Persian physician.He is known for his commentary on the Mujiz, which was an epitome made in the 13th century by Ibn al-Nafis of The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna....
, physician.
Arzani, Muqim
Muqim Arzani

Muhammad Akbar ibn Mir Hajji Muhammad Muqim Arzani was a physician from Persia.Arzani was a celebrated Sufi physician of the late 17th and early 18th century....
, physician.
Astarabadi
Astarabadi

Astarabadi is an Iranian surname, derived from the city of Astarabad, an important town in northern Iran. It may refer to:* Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi , Iranian Chief Minister...
, physician.
Aufi, Muhammad
Zahiriddin Nasr Muhammad Aufi

Sadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand, Merv, Neishaboor, Sistan and Ghaznayn....
, scientist and historian
Avicenna
Avicenna

, known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi or Ibn Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna , was a Persian people polymath and the foremost Islamic medicine and Early Islamic philosophy of his time....
(Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
Azophi, a.k.a. Abdorrahman Sufi, astronomer from Ray
Ray, Iran

Ray, also spelled Rey, Rayy, Rhages or Rages is the oldest existing city in the Tehran province, Iran....
that invented the meridian ring.
Yousefi, Mohammad, Analytical Chemist,Gas conversion department, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, IRAN

B

Bahai, Sheikh
Shaykh Bahai

Muhammad ibn Thalib ibn Abd Allah ibn Ni`mat Allah ibn Sadr ad-Din ibn Shaykh Baha' ad-Din ash-Shirazi was a 15th century physician from Shiraz, Iran, Persian Empire....
poet, mathematician, and astronomer,engineer,designer,faghih(religious scientist),Architect
Bal'ami, Samanid
Samanid

The Samanid dynasty or Samanids was an Iranian Persian empire in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted to Sunni Islam despite being from Zoroastrianism theocratic nobility....
era scholar
Balkhi
Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

File:Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpgJa'far ibn Mu?ammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi , also known as al-Falaki or Albumasar was a Iranian-Afghan Islamic mathematics, Islamic astronomy, Islamic astrology and Early Islamic philosophy....
, a.k.a. Albumasar, mathematician
Balkhi, Ibn Sahl
Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi

Abu Zaid Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi was a Persian people Muslim polymath: a Islamic geography, Islamic mathematics, Islamic medicine, Islamic psychological thought and Islamic science....
, geographer and mathematician
Ibn Balkhi
Ibn Balkhi

Ibn Balkhi was a 12th century historian of Persia, in the city of Balkh, in present day Afghanistan.He is known for his work the Fars Nama . Dehkhoda dictionary mentions him to be a contemporary of Muhammad I of Great Seljuk....
Banu Musa
Banu Musa

The Banu Musa brothers were three 9th century Persian people scholars, of Baghdad, active in the House of Wisdom:*Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir , who specialised in Islamic astronomy, Muslim inventions, geometry and Islamic physics....
Brothers
Barmak, Khaled, Bhuddist from Khorasan in the court of al-Mansur
Al-Mansur

Al-Mansur, Almanzor or Abu Ja'far Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur was the second Abbasid Caliph. He was born at al-Humaymah, the home of the 'Abbasid family after their emigration from the Hejaz in 687?688....
, initiated the Greek translation movement of the Abbasid
Abbasid

The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The Caliphate is one of the high points of Islam, and at the time Muslim civilization, together with that of Byzantium, China and India, was the most developed part of the world....
House of Wisdom
House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom was a key institution in the Translation Movement - a library and translation institute in Abbassid-era Baghdad, Iraq. It is considered to have been a major intellectual center of the Islamic Golden Age....
Behbehani, Amir, Economist.
Ibn Bibi
Ibn Bibi

Ibn Bibi is author of the primary source for the history of the Seljuk Sultanate of R?m during the 13th century. He served as head of the chancellery of the Sultanate in Konya and reported on contemporary events....
, historian of the Seljuks of Rum.
Bukhtishu
Bukhtishu

Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori were a family of Nestorian Christian Persian Empiren physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years....
, Persian Christian physicians of Academy of Gundishapur
Academy of Gundishapur

The Academy of Gundishapur was a renowned academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire....
Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn
Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu

Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ibn Bakhtyashu, also spelled Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa in many texts, was an 11th century Persian physician, descendant of the great Bukhtishu....
, physician
Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu

Jabril ibn Bukhtishu, also written as Bakhtyshu, was an 8-9th century physician from the famous Bukhtishu family of Persian Nestorian physicians from the Academy of Gundishapur....
, physician
Bukhtishu, Yuhanna
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu

Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu was a 9th century Persian physician from Khuzestan, Persia. .Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu? was a member of a prominent family of Nestorian Christian physicians originally from Jundishapur in Khuzastan who worked in Baghdad from the 8th through the 10th centuries....
, physician
Burzoe
Burzoe

Burzoe or Bozorgmehr was a famous Iranian statesman and physician of the Sassanid era of the Persian Empire in the sixth century. He was the chancellor of Khosrau I ....
, a.k.a. Borzouyeh-i Tabib, physician of Academy of Gundishapur
Academy of Gundishapur

The Academy of Gundishapur was a renowned academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire....
Birjandi
Al-Birjandi

Abd al-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Birjandi prominent 16th century Islamic astronomy, Islamic mathematics and Islamic science who lived in Birjand, Iran....
astronomer and mathematician 16th century
Biruni, astronomer and mathematician

E

Esfarayeni
Abubakr Esfarayeni

Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad Asfara'ni, also written Esfarayeni, known as Abu Bakr was a Persian physician from Esfarayen, North Khorasan, Iran....
, physician

F

Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), philosopher
Farghani
Al-Farghani

also known as 'Alfraganus' in the West was a Persian Muslim astronomer and one of the famous astronomers in 9th century.He was involved in the measurement of the diameter of the Earth together with a team of scientists under the patronage of al-Ma'mun in Baghdad....
, a.k.a. Alfraganus, astronomer
Farsi, mathematician
Fazari, Ibrahim
Fazari, Mohammad

G

Geber; Jaber ibn Hayan, chemist
Gardezi, Abu Said, geographer and historian
Ghazzali
Al-Ghazali

Abu ?amid Mu?ammad ibn Mu?ammad al-Ghazali was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia. He was an Islamic theology, Fiqh, Islamic philosophy, Islamic astronomy, Islamic psychology and Sufism of Persian people origin, and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sunni Islamic thought....
(Algazel), philosopher
Gilani, Hakim
Al-Jilani

Hakim ?Ali ibn Kamal al-Din Muhammad al-Jilani was a 16th century Persian people royal physician from Gilan, Iran.He came from Persia to the Mughal Empire court of Akbar and served under several Mughal rulers in northwest India....
, royal physician
Gorgani, Zayn al-Din Isma‘il ibn, royal physician
Gorgani, Abu Saeed, astronomer and mathematician
Gorgani, Rustam
Rustam Gorgani

Rustam Jurjani was a mid-16th century Persian people physician who lived in India.Rustam Jurjani was the court physician of two of the rulers of the Deccan sultanates, Malik Ahmad Shah I and Burhan Shah I , in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan Plateau, India....
, physician
Gorgani e Masihi, see Masihi Gorgani
Al-Masihi

Abu Sahl Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani was a Christian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.He was the teacher of Avicenna....
, Avicenn'a master

H

Hajji Zayn al-Attar
Hajji Zayn al-Attar

Ali ibn Husayn Ansari Shirazi, known as Hajji Zayn al-?Attar, was a 14th century Persian physician.He served for sixteen years as the court physician to the Muzaffarids ruler Shah Shuja , who ruled from 1358 to 1384....
, physician
Hakim Ghulam Imam
Hakim Ghulam Imam

Hakim Ghulam Imam was a Persian physician, whose dates are uncertain.He composed a Persian-language treatise on therapeutics titled Ilaj al-ghuraba , which is preserved today in only one recorded manuscript, now in India, but which was also printed in India many times in the 19th century....
, physician
Mohammad Reza Hafeznia
Mohammad Reza Hafeznia

Mohammad Reza Hafeznia is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990....
, Political Geographer & Geopolitician
Hakim Muhammad Mehdi Naqi
Muhammad Mehdi ibn Ali Naqi

Muhammad Mehdi ibn Ali Naqi was an early 18th century Persian physician from Isfahan .He composed a Persian treatise on hygiene and preservation of health addressed to travelers, titled Zad al-musafirin, which he wrote in Isfahan , during the Afghan invasion....
, physician
Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan
Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan

Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan was a Shi'a physician of some importance at end of 18th century from Persia.He was physician to the Mughal Empire emperor Shah Alam II and possibly to his son Akbar II ....
, physician
Hallaj, Mystic-philosopher
Haly Abbas, prominent physician
Hamadani, Rashid al-Din
Rashid al-Din

Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani , was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ....
, historian
Hamadani, Ali, physician
Mahmoud Behzad
Mahmoud Behzad

Professor Mahmoud Behzad , born in Rasht, the Capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of new Biology science in Iran. He has written more than 100 books in Persian language and participated in the authorship process of more than 200 books in Iran....
, The father of Persian modern biology science
Harawi, Abolfadl, astronomer of Buyid dynasty
Harawi, Muwaffak: See Al-Muwaffak
Al-Muwaffak

Abu Mansur Muvaffak Harawi was a 10th century Persian Empire physician.He flourished in Herat of Persia, under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 to 976....
, pharmacologist
Harawi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf, physician
Harawi, Ali
Ali ibn abi bakr al-Harawi

Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi was an early thirteenth century Persian traveller originally from Herat, now part of Afghanistan. Born in Mosul, Iraq he travelled far and wide and died in Aleppo, Syria in a fort built for him....
, traveller
Hasani, Qavameddin
Qiwam al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani

Qiwam al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani was a Iran physician of the late 17th century. Hasani was a scholar who is known to have been working in the city of Qazvin in Persia in the year 1694 CE....
, physician
Hayyan, Jabir ibn
Geber

Geber is the Latinized form of "Jabir", with the full name of Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan , a prominent Muslim polymath: a Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam, Astronomy in medieval Islam and Islamic astrology, Inventions of the Islamic Golden Age, Geography in medieval Islam#Geology, mineralogy, and paleontology, Early Islamic philo...
, one of the most notable Islamic chemists
Hessaby, Mahmoud Mahmoud Hessaby
Mahmoud Hessaby

Mahmoud Hessaby was a prominent Iranian scientist, researcher and distinguished professor of University of Tehran.Hessaby was born in Tehran to Abbas and Goharshad Hessaby....
, physician

I

Ibn Abi Sadiq
Ibn Abi Sadiq

Ibn Abi Sadiq, Abu al-Qasim ?Abd al-Rahman ibn ?Ali was an 11th century Persian physician from Khorasan, now Afghanistan and Iran.He was said by some medieval biographical sources to have been a pupil of Avicenna's....
, "The Second Hippocrates", Avicenna's disciple
Ibn Haytham, physicist
Ibn Khaseb, physician
Ibn Khordadbeh
Ibn Khordadbeh

Abu'l Qasim Ubaid'Allah ibn Khordadbeh , author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography, was a Persian geographer and bureaucrat of the 9th century....
, geographer
Ibrahim al-Fazari
Ibrahim al-Fazari

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Sulaiman ibn Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazari was an 8th century Muslim mathematician and astronomer of either Arab or Persian people background....
Ibn Rustah
Ahmad ibn Rustah

Ibn Rustah was a 10th century Persians explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan , Iran He wrote a geographical compendium. The information on his home town of Isfahan is especially valuable....
Ilaqi, Yusef
Yusuf al-Ilaqi

Mu?ammad ibn 'Ali al-Ilaqi was an eleventh century Persian physician from Khorasan.Contrary to Carl Brockelmann's information , Sharaf al-Zaman Mu?ammad ibn ?Ali al-Ilaqi of Bakharz , who was most probably active in Balkh , was not a figure of the 6th/12th century....
, Avicenna
Avicenna

, known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi or Ibn Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna , was a Persian people polymath and the foremost Islamic medicine and Early Islamic philosophy of his time....
's pupil
Ilyas, Yusef ibn
Yusuf ibn Ilyas

Man?ur ibn Mu?ammad ibn A?mad ibn Yusuf Ibn Ilyas was a late 14th century physician from Shiraz, Iran, Timurid Empire.Mansur was from a family of scholars and physicians active for several generations in the city of Shiraz....
, physician
Isfahani Abol-fath
Al-Isfahani

Abu al-Fath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani was a 10th century Persian people mathematician. He flourished probably around 982AD in Isfahan ....
, mathematician
Ibn Sina, (Avicenna), Philosopher and Physician
Isfahani, Jalaleddin
Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani

Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani, was a 19th century Persian physician from Isfahan .Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Isfahani, who refers to himself as al-tabib al-Isfahani , composed an Arabic general treatise on therapeutics, arranged in order from head to foot....
, physician
Isfahani, Husayn
Husayni al-Isfahani

Ghiyath al-Din 'Ali ibn Amirin al-Husayni al-Isfahani was a 15th-century Persian physician and scientist from Isfahan , Iran. He is best known for a Persian encyclopedia of the natural sciences entitled Danish'namah-i Jahan, which he completed in either 1474 or 1466....
, physician
Istakhri, geographer, gives the earliest known account of windmill
Windmill

A windmill is a machine that is powered by the energy of the wind. It is designed to convert the energy of the wind into more useful forms using rotating blades or sails....
s
Iranshahri
Iranshahri

Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri was a Persian people philosopher in medieval ages. he was born in Neyshabur about 9th centurey CE. according to Nasir Khusraw Iranshahri was the teacher of Rhazes in ancient Iranian Philosophy....
,philosopher,the teacher of Muhammad Zakaria Razi.

J

Jabir ibn Hayyan,

A polymath

Polymath

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
. He emphasized systematic experiment

Experiment

In scientific inquiry, an experiment is a method of investigating causal relationships among variables. An experiment is a cornerstone of the empiricism approach to acquiring data about the world and is used in both natural sciences and social sciences....
ation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science.

Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

File:Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpgJa'far ibn Mu?ammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi , also known as al-Falaki or Albumasar was a Iranian-Afghan Islamic mathematics, Islamic astronomy, Islamic astrology and Early Islamic philosophy....
Jaghmini
Jaghmini

Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar Jaghmini, or al-Jaghmini was a 14th century Persian physician. He was born at Jaghmin, a village in Khwarezm , current day Uzbekistan....
, physician
Jaldaki
Al-Jaldaki

Izz al-Din Aydamir al-Jaldaki , also written al-Jildaki, was a 14th century Persian physician and alchemist from Khorasan.Al-Jaldaki was one of the last and one of the greatest of medieval Islamic alchemists....
, physician
Jarrah vizier from Khorasan
Khorasan

Khorasan Khorasan is famous world wide for its saffron and Berberis#Zereshk which are produced in the southern cities of the province. Production is more than 170 tons per year....
Juvayni
Ata al-Mulk Juvayni

Ala'iddin Ata-Malik Juvayni was a Persian language historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini ....
, historian
Juzjani, Abu Ubaid
Juzjani, Abu Ubaid

Abu Ubaid al-Juzjani, sometimes spelled Abu Ubayd or Abu Abyid al-Juzjani, was a Persian physician from Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan....
, physician
Jamasb, philosopher

K

Karaji
Al-Karaji

was a 10th century Persian people Islamic mathematics and Inventions in the Muslim world. His three major works are Al-Badi' fi'l-hisab , Al-Fakhri fi'l-jabr wa'l-muqabala , and Al-Kafi fi'l-hisab ....
, mathematician
Kashani (Kashi), mathematician
Kazerouni, Masoud, physician
Kermani, Iwad
Burhan al-Din Nafis ibn ‘Iwad al-Kirmani

Burhan-ud-din Nafis ibn ?Iwad Kirmani was a 15th century Persian physician from Kerman Province.Nafis ibn ?Iwad al-Kirmani was court physician to Ulugh Beg, the grandson of Tamerlane and the governor of Samarqand from 1409 to 1449 CE....
, physician
Khajeh-Noori, Abbas Gholi, Father of Statistics in Iran
Khazeni, Abu Jafar, mathematician
Khazeni, Abolfath, physicist
Khayyám, Omar
Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyam was a Persian peoples polymath: Islamic mathematics, Iranian philosophy, Islamic astronomy and above all Persian literature.He has also become established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period....
, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
Khorasani, Sultan Ali, physician
Khujandi
Al-Khujandi

Abu Mahmood Khujandi or Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr Al-Khujandi was a Persian Empire Islamic astronomy and Islamic mathematics who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory near the city of Ray, Iran in Iran....
, mathematician and astronomer
Kiamehr, Ramin, Geodesist
Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm
Algorithm

In mathematics, computing, linguistics and related subjects, an algorithm is a sequence of finite instructions, often used for calculation and data processing....
and algebra
Algebra

Algebra is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of structure , relation , and quantity. Together with geometry, mathematical analysis, combinatorics, and number theory, algebra is one of the main branches of mathematics....
, mathematician and astronomer
Kushyar ibn Labban
Kushyar ibn Labban

Abul-Hasan Kushyar ibn Labban ibn Bashahri Gilani , also known as Kushyar Gilani , was a Persian mathematician, geographer, and astronomer from Jilan, a.k.a....
, mathematician, Nasavi's master
Kuhi, Rostam
Kuhi

, was a Persian people Islamic mathematics, Islamic science and Islamic astronomy. Quhi was from Kuh , an area in Tabaristan, and flourished in Baghdad in the 10th century....
, mathematician
Kubra, Najmeddin
Najmeddin Kubra

Najmuddin-e Kubra was a 13th century Persian Sufi from Khwarezmia, the founder of the Kubrawiya or Kibruyeh Sufi order, influential in the Ilkhanate and Timurid Dynasty....

M

Mahani
Al-Mahani

Abu-Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isa Mahani, was a Persian people mathematician and astronomer from Mahan, Iran, Kerman Province, Persian Empire.A series of observations of lunar eclipse and solar eclipses and planetary conjunctions, made by him from 853 to 866, was in fact used by Ibn Yunus....
, mathematician
Mohammad, Baqer Al-Majlisi, historian, theologian, jurist and expert in narrative sciences
Muhammad al-Fazari
Muhammad al-Fazari

Abu abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari was a Muslim philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He is not to be confused with his father Ibrahim al-Fazari, also an astronomer and mathematician....
Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
Muhammad Baqir Yazdi

Muhammad Baqir Yazdi is an Iranian mathematician living 16th century. He gave the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056 many years before Euler's contribution to amicable numbers....
In the 17th century, He gave the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056.
Majusi, Ibn Abbas, physician
Marvazi
Al-Marwazi

Ahmad ibn 'Abdallah Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi was a Islamic astronomy and Islamic mathematics from Merv in Khorasan, Persian Empire.He flourished in Baghdad, and died a centenarian between 864 and 874....
, astronomer and mathematician
Marvazi, Abu Taher
Abu Tahir Marwazi

Qotb al-Zaman Muhammad Abu Tahir Marwazi was a 12th century prominent Persian philosopher from Khwarezmia.He died in Sarakhs in Iran in 1144CE....
, philosopher
Masawaiyh
Masawaiyh

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih, also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesue the Elder was an Assyrian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur....
or Masuya
Mashallah
Mashallah

Masha'allah ibn Athari was an eighth century Persian Jews astrology and astronomy from the city of Basra who became the leading astrologer of the late 8th century....
, of Jewish origins, from Khorasan
Khorasan

Khorasan Khorasan is famous world wide for its saffron and Berberis#Zereshk which are produced in the southern cities of the province. Production is more than 170 tons per year....
who designed the city of Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
based on Firouzabad
Firouzabad

Firouzabad or Firuzabad is a city in Iran. It is located in Fars province south of Shiraz, Iran. The town is surrounded by a mud wall and ditch....
Masihi Gorgani
Al-Masihi

Abu Sahl Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani was a Christian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.He was the teacher of Avicenna....
, Avicenna's master
Mirza Ali Hakim
Mirza Ali

Mirza Ali was a Persian physician that lived in the seventeenth century.Nothing is known about Mirza Ali other than what can be gleaned from the unique copy of his therapeutic treatise that is preserved in the National Library of Medicine collections....
, physician
Miskawayh
Ibn Miskawayh

Abu 'Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'qub Ibn Miskawayh, also known as Ibn Miskawayh was a prominent Iran Early Islamic philosophy, Islamic science, Islamic poetry and Historiography of early Islam from Ray, Iran....
, philosopher
Mostowfi Qazvini
Hamdollah Mostowfi

Hamdollah Mostowfi , was an Iranian historian, geographer and epic poet.Mostowfi is the author of Nozhat ol-Gholub , Zafar-Nameh , and the Tarikh e Gozideh ....
, geographer
Mozaffar ibn Ismail of Herat
Herat

Herat , classically called the Aria, is a city in western Afghanistan, in the province also known as Herat province. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, Afghanistan, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan....
, physicist and original author of Khazeni's Balance of Wisdom
Mullasadra, philosopher
Muqaffa, Ibn
Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa

Abu-Muhammad Abd-Allah Ruzbeh ibn Daduya/Dadoe , mostly known as Ibn al-Muqaffa? or Ruzbeh pur-e Daduya , was an 8th-century Persian people thinker and Arabic language author and translator, and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam....
, founder of Arabic prose along with Abdol-Hamid.
bin Musa, Hasan, astronomer
bin Musa, Ahmad, astronomer
bin Musa, Muhammad, astronomer
Muwaffaq, Abu mansur
Al-Muwaffak

Abu Mansur Muvaffak Harawi was a 10th century Persian Empire physician.He flourished in Herat of Persia, under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 to 976....
, pharmacologist

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Nagawri
Al-Nagawri

Shahab al-Din ibn ?Abd al-Karim Qivam al-Nagawri was a 14th century Persian people physician.Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri composed several medical treatises, including a general handbook composed in 1392 and a short dictionary of drugs....
, physician
Nahavandi, Benjamin
Benjamin Nahawandi

Benjamin Nahawandi or Benjamin ben Moses or Benyamin ben Moshe al-Nahawendi was one of the greatest of the Karaite scholars of the early Middle Ages....
, Jewish scholar
Nahavandi, Ahmad, astronomer
Nakhshabi
Nakhshabi

Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi was an 14th-century Persian physician and Sufi living in India. He died in 1350.According to a statement in a manuscript now at The National Library of Medicine, Nakhshabi himself transcribed and illustrated a Persian translation made of a Hindi version of a Sanskrit treatise on sexual hygiene....
, physician
Nasavi
Ali Ahmad Nasawi

was a Persian mathematician from Khurasan, Iran. He flourished under the Buwayhid sultan Majd al-dowleh, who died in 1029-30AD, and under his successor....
, mathematician
Natili Tabari
Al-Natili

Al Husain ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan ibn Khurshid al-Tabari al-Natili, was a Persian Empire physician from Tabaristan.He flourished in the 10th century, and was a translator of Greek into Arabic....
, physician
Naubakht
Naubakht

Nobakht Ahvazi and his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz .Nobakht was particularly famous for having led a group of astrologers who picked an auspicious electional astrology for the founding of Baghdad....
, Zoroastrian designer of the city of Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
Naubakht, Fadhl ibn
Al-fadl ibn Naubakht

Al-fadl ibn Naubakht, , was an 8th century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid.He was son of the famous Naubakht, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed Baghdad....
Nayrizi
Al-Nayrizi

Abu?l-?Abbas al-Fa?l ibn ?atim al-Nairizi , was a 9th-10th century Persian people mathematician and astronomer from Nayriz, a town near Shiraz, Iran, Fars, Iran....
, mathematician
Naqshband, Baha ud-Din
Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari

Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari was the founder of what would become one of the largest and most influential Sufi Muslim orders, the Naqshbandi....
, philosopher
Neishaburi
Neishaburi

Abu al-Qasim al-Habib Neishaburi was a Persian physician from Khorasan who lived before 1750CE. His name indicates he was from Nishapur.He is known to have written two Arabic treatises on Prophetic medicine....
, physician
Nurbakhshi
Nurbakhshi

Baha' al-Dawlah ibn Siraj al-Din Shah Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Husayni Nurbakhshi , was a 15-16th century Persian physician.He obtained court favor in both Persia and Baghdad....
, physician

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Paul the Persian
Paul the Persian

Paul the Persian was a sixth century Nestorian philosopher from Dershahr, Persia.In his Chronicon Ecclesiasticum, Bar Hebraeus mentions him as living during the time of Patriarch Ezekiel , writing that he was well versed in ecclesiastical and philosophical matters....
, philosopher

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Qazi Zadeh, prominent Turkish born mathematician
Qazwini, Zakariya
Zakariya al-Qazwini

Abu Yahya Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini , was a Persian people Medicine in medieval Islam, Astronomy in medieval Islam, Geography in medieval Islam and proto-science fiction Persian literature....
, physician.

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Razi, Amin
Amin Razi

was a 16th century Persian Empire geographer and author of an encyclopedia called Haft iqlim .See also*List of Iranian scientists...
, geographer
Razi, Fakhreddin
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi or Fakhruddin Razi was a well-known Persian people Sunni Muslim theology and philosopher....
, philosopher
Razi, Zakariya (Rhazes), chemist and physicist
Razi, Najmeddin
Najmeddin Razi

Sheikh Abdollah ibn Muhammad Najmeddin Razi was a 13th century famous Persian Sufi from Khwarezmia.He was one of the students of the great Sufi mystic Najmeddin Kubra....
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Mu?ammad Balkhi , also known as Jalal ad-Din Mu?ammad Rumi , but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, , was a 13th-century Persian people poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic....
Rashid al-Din
Rashid al-Din

Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani , was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ....
, Physician and politician

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Ardeshir Sepahsalar, philosopher.
Saghani Ostorlabi
Al-saghani

Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi was a Islamic astronomy and History of science. He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990 AD....
, astronomer.
Sahl, Fadl ibn
Fadl ibn Sahl

Fadl ibn Sahl Dhul-riyasatein Sarakhsi was a famous Persian vizier of the Abbasid era in Khorasan, who served under Al-Ma'mun.A Zoroastrian convert to Islam, he and his brother Hasan made many enemies while wielding incredible power in the courts of al-Mamun, particularly that he was suspected of being a Shia Alavid supporter....
Sahl, Shapur ibn
Shapur ibn Sahl

Shapur ibn Sahl was a ninth century Persian people Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur.Among other medical works, he wrote one of the first medical books on antidotes called Aqrabadhin, which was divided into 22 volumes, and which was possibly the earliest of its kind to influence Muslim medicine....
, physician.
Samarqandi, Najibeddin
Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi

Najib al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar al-Samarqandi was a 13th century Persian physician from Samarkand.Samarqandi died during the Mongol attack on Herat, in Persia, in 1222CE....
, physician.
Samarqandi, Ashraf, mathematician, astronomer.

Sarakhsi, Ahmad tayyeb, Famous physician of Academy of Gundishapur

Academy of Gundishapur

The Academy of Gundishapur was a renowned academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire....
d900.Media: > Political Scientist, Iranian Studies,

Shahrastani
Al-Shahrastani

Taj al-Din Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karim ash-Shahrastani was an influential Persian_people historian of religions and a heresiographer....
historian of religions
Shahrazuri
Al-Shahrazuri

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuri was a 13th century Kurdish people physician and philosopher of the Ilkhanate and late Abbasid era of Iran....
, philosopher and physician.
Shirazi, Imad al-Din Mas'ud
Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi

Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas?ud Shirazi was a mid 16th century Persian physician from Shiraz, Iran.He studied medicine with his father in Shiraz and taught a number of students himself....
, physician.
Shirazi, Muhammad Hadi Khorasani
Al-Khurasani al-Shirazi

Muhammad Hussayn ibn Muhammad Hadi al-?Aqili al-?Alavi al-Khurasani al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from the 18th century from Shiraz, Iran....
, physician.
Shirazi, Qutbeddin
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi was a 13th century Persian people Islamic astronomy, Islamic Mathematics, Islamic medicine, Islamic science and from Shiraz, Iran, Iran....
, astronomer.
Shirazi, Mahmud ibn Ilyas
Mahmud ibn Ilyas Shirazi

Mahmud ibn Ilyas Shirazi was an authoritative Persian physician who lived before the 1700s and was from Shiraz, Iran.All that is known of this figure is that he is cited as an authority by ?Ali ibn Shaykh Muhammad ibn ?Abd al-Rahman who composed a versified Persian medical compendium titled Jawahir al-maqal, a copy of which is preserved...
, physician.
Shirazi, Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas
Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi

Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi, was a Persian physician from Shiraz, Iran in Persia.His major composition was a large Arabic medical compendium, Kitab al-Hawi fi ?ilm al-tadawi , whose title often caused confusion with the better-known Kitab al-Hawi written four centuries earlier by Rhazes....
, physician.
Shirazi, Qurayshi
Qurayshi al-Shirazi

Nur al-Din Muhammad Abd-Allah ibn Hakim ?Ayn al-Mulk Qurayshi Shirazi was a mid 17th century Persian people physician from Shiraz, Iran, Fars, Iran....
, physician.
Sijzi
Al-Sijzi

Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi was a Persian Islamic astronomy and Islamic mathematics of Pashtun origin from Sistan....
, mathematician.
Sijzi, Mas'ud
Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi

Mas?ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi was a List of ancient Persian doctors who lived before 1334CE in eastern Iran.Little is known of the life of Mas?ud ibn Muhammad al-Sijzi, only that he must have been working sometime before 1334CE....
, physician.
Soleiman ibn Hasan
Soleiman ibn Hasan

Sulayman ibn Muhammad Karim ibn Muhammad Wali ibn Himmat ibn Isa ibn Hasan was a Persian physician who lived before 1709CE.Virtually nothing is known of this author except that he composed a Persian treatise on simple and compound remedies that was written sometime before 1709 when one copy preserved today was made....
, physician.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi: see Azophi.
Suhrawardi, Shahab al-Din
Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

"Shahab ad-Din" Ya?y? ibn ?abash as-Suhrawardi was a Persian philosopher, Sufism and the founder of the School of Illumination, one of the most important schools in Islamic philosophy....
, philosopher.

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Tabari, prominent historian.
Tabari, Natili: See Al-Natili
Al-Natili

Al Husain ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Hasan ibn Khurshid al-Tabari al-Natili, was a Persian Empire physician from Tabaristan.He flourished in the 10th century, and was a translator of Greek into Arabic....
Tabari, Abul Hasan
Abul Hasan al-Tabari

Abu-l-Hasan Ahmad ibn Mohammad al-Tabari, was a 10th century Persian physician from Tabaristan.He was a physician of Rukn al-dawlah, a Buwayhid ruler....
, physician.
Tabari, Ibn Sahl
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari was a Muslim Hakim , Ulema, Islamic medicine and Early Muslim sociology of Persian Jews or Zoroastrian descent, who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine....
, Jewish convert physician. Master of Rhazes.
Tabrizi, Maqsud Ali
Maqsud Ali Tabrizi

Maqsud Ali Tabrizi was a 17th century Iranian physician from Tabriz.Maqsud Ali Tabrizi was a translator who worked at the request of the Mughal Empire emperor Jahangir ....
, physician.
Taftazani
Taftazani

box_width= 300px|name = Al-Taftazani|birth_date = 1322|birth_place = Taftazan Khorasan, Iran or Herat Afghanistan|residence = Sarakhs...
, theologian, linguist
Tahir, Abdollah ibn. A medieval governor of Khorasan
Khorasan

Khorasan Khorasan is famous world wide for its saffron and Berberis#Zereshk which are produced in the southern cities of the province. Production is more than 170 tons per year....
. Wrote Kitab al-Quniy, discussing irrigation techniques.
Tariq, Yaqub ibn
Yaqub ibn Tariq

was an 8th century Persian Empire astronomer and mathematician. lived in Baghdad, and is considered to be one of the greatest astronomers of his time....
Tunakabuni
Tunakabuni

Muhammad Mu'min ibn Mir Muhammad Zaman Tunakabuni was a Persian physician from the second half of the 17th century from Mazandaran.Tunakabuni was an author on various medical and religious topics....
, physician.
Tughra'i
Al-Tughrai

Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma?il al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Tughra'i was an 11th-12th century Kurdish people physicianMu'ayyad al-Din al-Tughra'i, was born in Isfahan in 1061CE, and was an important Alchemy, poet, and administrative secretary ....
, physician.
Tusi, Nizam ol-Molk
Nizam al-Mulk

Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk was a celebrated Persians scholar and vizier of the Seljuqs....
, the great vizier.
Tusi, Nasireddin, mathematician, philosopher.
Tusi, Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Ahmad, author of the famous 12th century Ajayib al-Makhluqat (????? ?????????).
Tusi, Sharafeddin
Sharafeddin Tusi

was a Persian people Islamic mathematics and Islamic astronomy of the Islamic Golden Age ....
, mathematician.

U

Ulugh Beg
Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg...
, Timurid era astronomer.
Urdi, Mo'ayyeduddin
Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi

Mu?ayyad al-Din al-?Urdi was an Arab Islamic astronomy, Islamic mathematics, Islamic architecture and Inventions in the Islamic world working at the Maragheh observatory....
, astronomer who made modifications to Ptolemy's model to account for discrepancies in observations.

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Vatvat
Vatvat

Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat was a 13th century Persian physician.The National Library of Medicine possesses an untitled Persian treatise on general preparation of food and drink which gives the author as Amin al-Din Rashid Vatvat and specifies that it was composed for Arghun Khan who ruled from 1284-1291CE....
, scholar and physician.

Y

Yazdad, Ibn was a learned Persian vizier from Merv
Merv

Merv , formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana , was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary, Turkmenistan in Turkmenistan....
, Khorasan
Khorasan

Khorasan Khorasan is famous world wide for its saffron and Berberis#Zereshk which are produced in the southern cities of the province. Production is more than 170 tons per year....
, of the Abbasid dynasty.
Yaqub ibn Tariq
Yaqub ibn Tariq

was an 8th century Persian Empire astronomer and mathematician. lived in Baghdad, and is considered to be one of the greatest astronomers of his time....
Yumn, Nazif ibn
Yousefi, Mohammad, Analytical Chemist,Gas conversion department,Iran Polymer and Petrochemical InstituteIran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, IRAN.

Z

Zaiyat, Ibn was a learned Persian vizier from Gilan, of the Abbasid dynasty.
Zamakhshari, scholar and geographer.
Zarrin dast
Zarrin Dast

Abu Ruh Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn abi 'Abdallah ibn Mansur al-Jamani , nicknamed zarrin-dast was an eleventh century Persian Ophthalmology....
, oculist.

List of Iranian scientists and scholars

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