People from Kufa

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ; ; ) was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

thumb|An Arabic manuscript with the Diwan of Mutanabbi (Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi), by the scribal scholar Abu-I-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn al-Hussain, c. 1300 AD, origin unknown Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī ( – 965 AD), commonly known as al-Mutanabbi (), was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial.

Persian jurist and scholar (c.828-889)

Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)

Arab historian (737–819)

Islamic scholar

Muslim historian

Arab musician of Persian origin (767/772 – 850)

Arab musician of Persian origin (742–804)

Persian Abbasid vizier and official (died 818)

Umayyad Arab nobleman and military commander (died 704)

Iranian poet and politician

Hafs (, , 706–796 AD; 90–180 AH), according to Islamic tradition, was one of the primary transmitters of one of the seven canonical methods of Qur'an recitation (''qira'at''). His method via his teacher Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud has become the most popular method across the majority of the Muslim world.

Bahlūl () was the common name of Wāhab ibn Amr (Arabic: ), a companion of Musa al-Kadhim. He lived in the time of the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd. Bahlūl was a well known judge and scholar who came from a wealthy background.

Islamic theologian (c.696–c.745 CE)

Islamic hadith scholar (745/47–812)

10th-century Iraqi Isma'ili missionary

9th century Iraqi religious leader

late 9th/early 10th-century Iraqi Isma'ili missionary

Iraqi poet

Muslim jurist and scholar

Arab historian based in Kufa

Shiite scholar, 8th C.

late-7th century Islamic scholar

muslim writer

Late 7th-century Arab commander and rebel

Iraqi poet

Zayidi scholar, jurist, muhaddith

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī (died 942) was a prominent Abbasid bureaucrat and scholar. He authored ''Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab'' (Book of Viziers and Scribes).

Kufan poet

8th-century Islamic scholar

chief judge (qadi al-qudat) of the Abbasid Caliphate (died 866)

abbasid chief Qadi (qadi al-qudat) from 973/4 to 975

shia Muslim scholar and disciple of Shia Imams (8th century)