People from Basra

Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

Iraqi sufi and poet

Muslim theologian (874–936)

Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher and judge (c.642–728)

Iraqi politician and Army commander (1954-2020)

Arab poet and scholar (1054–1122)

Medieval secret society of Muslim philosophers and authors

8th-century Muslim scholar and dreams interpreter

Umayyad Caliphate Arab commander and governor (669-715/6)

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib (; –1058), commonly known by the nisba al-Mawardi (), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian, sociologist and an expert in political science. He is considered to be an eminent scholar of his time who wrote on numerous subjects, including Qur'anic interpretations, religion, government, public and constitutional law, language, ethics and belles-lettres.

IraqI-Israeli military officer and politician (1936-2016)

leader of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and figure in the history of the Crusades

Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer (c. 740–815 AD)

Persian Arab grammarian and linguist (728–825)

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (; 950 – 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative Islamic theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith. He spent much of his life defending and strengthening the Ash'ari school of theology within Islam. An accomplished rhetorical stylist and orator, al-Baqillani was held in high regard by his contemporaries for his expertise in debating theological and jurisprudential issues. Al-Dhahabi referred to him as "the learned imam, incomparable master, foremost of the scholars, author of many books, and example of a

Arab historian of Abbasid era (777-854)

Abbasid Caliphate scholar

Iraqi politician (1943-2004)

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Sayf al-Qurashi (; 752/753–843), commonly known by his '''al-Mada'ini''' (), was a scholar of Iranian descent who wrote in Arabic and was active under the early Abbasids in Iraq in the first half of the 9th century. A scholar of many interests, he wrote over 200 works, but is best known as a historian.

Iraqi singer

French composer (1937–2020)

Medieval Islamic scholar

Iraqi poet (1934–2021)

Islamic Theologian

Iraqi mufassir and traditionalist

Shāriyah (, born in al-Basra; died c. 870 CE) was an ‘Abbasid qayna (enslaved singing-girl), who enjoyed a prominent place in the court of Al-Wathiq (r. 842–847).

Muslim philosopher, Mu'tazilite from Basra

Iraqi officer

Iraqi musician

Sheikh of Mohammerah (1863–1936)

Iraqi women's rights activist

Armenian Islamic preacher

King of Hadith

Iraqi rabbi

early scholar of Islam

Israeli politician (1921-2019)

Chief judge of Abbasid Caliphate

Iraqi actor

Islamic author and thinker

German writer

Islamic scholar and ḥadīth transmitter (685–768 CE)

Iraqi-born anti-terrorism activist (born 1963)

prominent, wealthy Iraqi tax official

Muslim traditionist (died 822)

Israeli politician (1920-2012)

Norwegian geologist

Ibadi faqih

eighth-century Basran hadith scholar

Iraqi artist Of Palestinian origin

Muslim historian

arab chieftain

Islamic scholar and hadith narrator (716–795)

Iraqi politician

Kuwaiti actress

abbasid acting Chief Judge (848–850)

Israeli judge (1941-2014)

Iraqi artist (1934–2004)

Iraqi novelist and journalist