10th-century Arabic-language writers

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari is widely known for his historical works and expertise in Quranic exegesis, and has been described as "an impressively prolific polymath". He authored works on a diverse range of subjects, including world history, poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine. Among his most fa

Arab historian, writer, poet and musicologist (897–967)

Ibn Miskuyah ( Muskūyah, 932–1030), (Arabic: مِسْكَوَيْه، أبو علي محمد بن أحمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي) full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī was a Persian chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and historian from Parandak, Iran. As a Neoplatonist, his influence on Islamic philosophy is primarily in the area of ethics. He was the author of the first major Islamic work on philosophical ethics entitled the Refinement of Character ( Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq), focusing on practical ethics, conduct, and the refinement of character. He separated personal ethics from

10th century Arab scholar and bibliographer

Arab poet

Nabatean Arab writer, agronomist and historian

10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court

medieval Jewish physician and philosopher

Moorish writer

Arabic lexicographer

10th-century Persian philologist and historian

Al-Amīr al-Mukhtār ʿIzz al-Mulk Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abīʾl Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Azīz al-Ḥarranī al-Musabbiḥī al-Kātib, commonly known simply as al-Musabbihi () (4 March 977 – April/May 1030), was a Sunni Fatimid historian, writer and administrative official. He is known to have authored some 40,000 pages of manuscripts dealing with an array of topics, including history, psychology, law, grammar, sexology and cooking. Akhbār Miṣr, a contemporary chronicle of Egyptian history and news, was among al-Musabbihi's well-known works. However, like the vast majori

Ghaznavid poet

Arab Christian philosopher (c.870–940)

Iranian scientist

Iraqi cookbook writer

Scholar, mystic

Andalusian Muslim historian (888–955)

10th century Andalusian Arab physician and pharmacologist

East Syriac archbishop, writer and scholar

10th-century Turkic poet

Persian poet and Islamic scholar (died c.1010)

Iranian poet

10th century poet, philosopher and scholar of al-Andalus

10th-century Persian grammarian of Arabic

Medieval Judeo-Arabic philosopher and controversialist

Andalusían historian and geographer

10th-century Isma'ili theologian

Iraqi poet

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī (died 942) was a prominent Abbasid bureaucrat and scholar. He authored ''Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab'' (Book of Viziers and Scribes).

Syriac philosopher and physician (943–1008)

Muslim historian

Arab scholar

10th-century Isma'ili missionary and theological writer

Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Junbalani al-Khasibi (873-968), commonly known simply as al-Khasibi, was an Alawite religious leader and missionary. He originally was from a village called Jonbalā, between Kufa and Wasit in Iraq, which was the center of the Qarmatians. He was a member of a well-educated family with close ties to eleventh Twelver Imam Hasan al-Askari and a scholar of the Alawites, also known as Nusayris, which is now present in Syria, southern Turkey and northern Lebanon.

Arabic seafarer from the early 10th century

Iraqi poet