8th-century writers

Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765)

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Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)

Bishop and hymnographer

muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853)

Arab musician of Persian origin (742–804)

8th c. Iraqi philologist and poet

Patriarch of the Church of the East

First author from the Maghreb of a work dealing with the Islamic conquest of the region