19th-century Persian-language writers

Iranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic

Kurdish poet (1805–1848)

Azerbaijani writer and scholar

writer and politician (1885-1938)

Russian orientalist, historian and philologist

Indian author

Tajik writer, scholar, poet (1827-1897)

Iranian politician

Indian tax collector, Persian scholar and author of an early travel memoir recounting his trip to Britain, Europe and Asia Minor (1752–1806)

Catholic convert to Islam (1867–1940)

Iranian scholar, mystic, and traveler

Iranian atheist nationalist writer

Iranian politician (1800–1871)

Qajar prince (1810-1884)

Dagestan historian, poet and faqih (1834-1910)

translator and interpreter for Naser al-Din Shah Qajar

Qajar prince

Azerbaijani author, religious educator, clergyman and the Mufti of the Caucasus (1884-1917)

Azerbaijani religious educator, Islamic theologian and Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus (1895-1907)

poet and historian from the Emirate of Bukhara

Iranian historian

Persian Prince of Qajar Dynasty, the third son of Abbas Mirza (1810–1853)

governor of Nahavand

Qajar writer

Iranian Poet and Painter

Iranian historian

Iranian poet and writer (1765–1822)

Qajar princess, Persian calligrapher and poet (1799–1873)

Iranian Islamic scholar and writer