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10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate

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Ahmad ibn Fadlan
10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer
Ibn Hawqal
10th century Arab writer and geographer
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī () (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian. He studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. He is known for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of Sunni Islamic creed which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.
Abu Sahl al-Quhi
10th century Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam
Islamic Mathematician
Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
Medieval Arab mathematician
Sayf al-Dawla
Muslim general
Muhammad al Warraq
Islamic scholar
Ibn Duraid
Arab poet and linguist
Ahmad ibn Yusuf
Arabic mathematician
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Arab mathematician and astronomer
Mu'izz al-Dawla
1st Buyid emir of Iraq from 945 to 967
Qudama ibn Ja'far
Abbasid Caliphate scholar
Yaʿqub ibn Killis
Egyptian Vizier under the Fatimids from 979 to 991
Nasir al-Dawla
Emir of Mosul from 935 to 967
Saghani
Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi (, referred to by at least one source as Ṣāghānī, was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. His name means "the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv". He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990.
Damian of Tarsus
Muslim admiral
Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh
10th-century Abbasid general and governor of Syria and Egypt
'Ubaydallah ibn 'Abdallah ibn Tahir
Governor of Baghdad and military officer (c.838–913)
Husayn ibn Hamdan
Abbasid general
Mu'nis al-Khadim
Abbasid army commander (845/6–933)
Bajkam
Abū al-Husayn Bajkam al-Mākānī (), referred to as Bajkam, Badjkam or Bachkam (from Bäčkäm, a Persian and Turkish word meaning a horse- or yak-tail), was a Turkish military commander and official of the Abbasid Caliphate. A former ghulam of the Ziyarid dynasty, Bajkam entered Abbasid service following the assassination of the Ziyarid ruler Mardavij in 935. During his five-year tenure at the Caliphate's court at Baghdad, he was granted the title of amir al-umara, consolidating his dominance over the caliphs al-Radi and al-Muttaqi and giving him absolute power over their domains. Bajkam was chall
Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah
10th-century Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate
Elias III of Jerusalem
Patriarch of Jerusalem from c.879 to 907
Shaghab
Shaghab () (died 933) was the mother of the eighteenth Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir (), and wielded a considerable influence over state affairs during the reign of her son. She was commonly referred to only as Umm al-Muqtadir (mother of al-Muqtadir) or al-Sayyida (the lady).
Abu Mansur al-Azhari
Arab lexicographer, philologist and grammarian
Ibn al-A'lam
arab astronomer and astrologer
Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah
abbasid Vizier and Official (901–904)
Patriarch Michael II of Alexandria
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria
Khwaja Mumshad Uluw Al Dīnawarī
Pope Michael III of Alexandria
ruled in 880–907
al-Zajjāj
Grammarian of Basrah
Ibn Baks
physician
Abu-l-Hàssan Alí ibn Muhàmmad ibn Mussa ibn al-Furat
10th century Abbasid vizier and Official
Badr al-Mu'tadidi
Abbasid commander-in-chief (died 902)
Abu Abdallah al-Baridi
prominent, wealthy Iraqi tax official
Abdallah ibn Abi al-Shawarib
abbasid Chief Qadi (qadi al-qudat) from 961–963
Abbas Hassan Jumaah
Senior Abbasid official and vizier from 904 to 908
Abu-Alí Muhàmmad ibn Ubayd-Al·lah al-Khaqaní
10th-century Abbasid vizier and court official
Ahmad al-Muhajir
Muslim scholar and teacher during the Islamic Golden Age
Ibn-al-Anbārī
Arab philologist and grammarian
Aḥmad ibn Jaʻfar Jaḥẓah al-Barmakī
Iraqi poet
Muhammad ibn al-Mustakfi
son of Abbasid Caliph al-Mustakfi
Al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim
abbasid Vizier and Official (931–932)
Al-Madhara'i
The '''al-Madhara'i' () were a family of officials from Iraq who served as and virtually monopolized the posts of director of finances (‘āmil'') of Egypt and Syria for the Tulunid dynasty, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Ikhshidid dynasty, between 879 and 946. In this role, they amassed "one of the largest personal fortunes in the medieval Arab east" (Thierry Bianquis).
Abu-l-Qàssim Abd-Al·lah ibn Muhàmmad
Abbasid vizier from 924 to 925
Abdallah ibn Hamdan
Abbasid military commander
Thumal the Qahraman
first woman appointed as a judge in Islamic history
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti
'Imran ibn Shahin
10th-century founder of a Batihah marshlands state
Al-Kaŝkarī
Al-Kashkari (; 322 in AH/c. 934 CE in Kashkar – 414 AH/1023 CE in Fushanj) was a hospital physician from Baghdad.
Badr al-Hammami
abbasid Provincial governor and Army general
Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi
Senior statesman
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi
10th-century Fatimid Caliphate senior official
Ibn Abi Awn
Zaydan
courtier of the Abbasid harem during the reign of Caliph Al-Muqtadir (r. 908-929)
Hurra bint Badr
wife of Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir
Abu-Muhammad Hàmid ibn al-Abbàs
Abbasid magnate and vizier (837–923)
Umm Musa al-Hashimiyya
10th-century Abbasid Harem official
Ibrahim ibn Hamdan