11th-century Persian-language writers

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

thumb|Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi Abolqasem Mansour bin Hassan Tusi (940–1025), better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.

11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary

Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardīzī (), better known as Gardizi (), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official, who is notable for having written the Zayn al-akhbar, one of the earliest history books written in New Persian.

Persian historian

Persian Islamic scholar (948–1038)

Iranian theologian and writer

11th-century Persian grammarian of Arabic

Abu al-Hasan (or Abu al-Husayn) Bahmanyar ibn al-Marzban, better simply known as Bahmanyar (; died 1066) was an Iranian scholar, who is mainly known as one of the most prominent pupils of Avicenna (d. 1037).

11th century Persian Isma'ili scholar

11th century Isma'ili Muslim scholar

Persian Sufi poet

Persian poet