Iranian scholars

President of Iran from 2013 to 2021

President of Iran from 1997 to 2005

Arab Muslim hadith scholar (821–875)

Iranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)

Sunni scholar

Iranian scholar

muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853)

11th century Islamic scholar

Muslim jurist, theologian and historian (1067–1142)

Twelver Shia scholar

Al-Kisā’ī (d. ca. 804 or 812) was a Persian polymath and founder of the Kufan School of Arabic grammar. He directly served caliph Harun al Rashid as the Abbasid court tutor for two future caliphs. He is also called one of the ‘Seven Readers’ of the seven canonical Qira'at.

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

Iranian cleric

Persian scholar, philosopher and Buyid vizier (912–970)

Iranian translator, linguist, academic and Iranian poet (1886-1968)

Iranian cleric and academic

Iraqi poet

Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1899–1993)

Iranian scholar and writer (1921-2007)

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).

Iranian Muslim scholar and writer (1930–1997)

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Ahmed bin Ismail Alkhawas or Ebrahim Khawas was a Persian scholar of the Sunnis in the 3rd century AH.

Iranian poet

Safavid era Persian scholar and jurist

Iranian theologian

persian architect and scholar in medieval Anatolia

Pakistani saint

Iranian poet, literary and musician (1855-1920)

Iranian scholar

Iranian physician and essayist (1847–1924)

Karaite scholar

Iranian horse breeder (1933-2008)

Iranian philosopher

founder and leader of the El Yasin Community

Muslim philosopher

Iranian politician