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page 18th-century writers
Jaafar Al-Sadiq
Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765)

Padmasambhava
thumb|Rewalsar Lake#Colossus of Padmasambhava|Colossus of Padmasambhava, 123 ft. (37.5 m) high, in mist overlooking [[Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India]]
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)
Cosmas of Maiuma
Bishop and hymnographer
Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh
muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853)
Ibrahim Al-Mausili
Arab musician of Persian origin (742–804)
Ibn al-A'rabi
8th c. Iraqi philologist and poet

Aba II
Patriarch of the Church of the East

Issa ibn Abi al-Mouhajir
First author from the Maghreb of a work dealing with the Islamic conquest of the region