Daylamites

The Daylamites or Dailamites (Middle Persian: Daylamīgān; Deylamiyān) were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprising the southeastern half of Gilan Province.

Sahaba of Muhammad

second Isma'ili ruler of Alamut

emir of the Kakuyid dynasty

Iraqi poet

Persian poet, mystic, and Sufi

Iranian missionary

Iranian king

Al-Farrā (), he was Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād ibn Abd Allāh ibn Manṣūr al-Daylamī al-Farrā (), was a Daylamite scholar and the principal pupil of al-Kisā’ī (). He is the most brilliant of the Kūfan scholars. Muḥammad ibn Al-Jahm quotes Ibn al-Quṭrub that it was al-Farrā’s melodic eloquence and knowledge of the pure spoken Arabic of the Bedouins and their expressions that won him special favour at the court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He died on the way to Mecca, aged about sixty, or sixty-seven, in 822 (207 AH).

Wahrez (born Boe or Bōē) was a Sasanian general of Daylamite origin, first mentioned in the prelude to the Iberian War and then during the Aksumite–Persian wars.

faqih and muhaddith

Daylamite poet

Iranian Daylamite military leader (died 940)

mausoleum tower in Abarkuh, Iranian national heritage site

Iranian nobleman