People from Merv

islamic hadith Scholar and jurist (726–797)

Muslim saint

astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

Al-Muqanna ( "The Veiled", died c. 783) born Hashim, (Arabic: هاشم), was an 8th-century political and military leader who operated in modern Iran. He led a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate and according to various Muslim historians, claimed to be a prophet. He was a major figure of the Khorrām-Dīn religious movement, which drew on both Zoroastrian and Islamic influences.

muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853)

Barbad (; ) was a Persian musician-poet, music theorist and composer of Sasanian music. He served as chief minstrel-poet under the Shahanshah Khosrow II (). A barbat player, he was the most distinguished Persian musician of his time and is regarded among the major figures in the history of Persian music.

Muslim historian

thumb|Qajar Iran|Qajar-era miniature of the poets [[Ferdowsi, Unsuri and Asjadi]] Abu Nazar ʿAbdul ʿAziz bin Mansur ʿAsjadi () was a 10th-11th century royal Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire located in the Ghazni province of today's Afghanistan.

physician and author of the "Nature of Animals"

Persian poet

9th-century Abbasid vizier and court official

medieval bishop and theologian of the Church of the East

thumb|Note of Guillaume Postel on the Arabic astronomical manuscript of al-Kharaqī, Muntahā al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk ("The Ultimate Grasp of the Divisions of Spheres"). '''Abū Muḥammad 'Abd al-Jabbār al-Kharaqī, also Al-Kharaqī' (1084-1158) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician of the 12th century, born in Kharaq near Merv. He was in the service of Sultan Sanjar at the Persian Court. Al-Kharaqī challenged the astronomical theory of Ptolemy in the Almagest, and established an alternative theory of the spheres, imagining huge material spheres in which the planets moved inside tubes. He

persian poet (c. 7th-8th century CE)

Armenian composer and conductor (1906-1958)

Iranian aristocrat, marzban of Merv, Sasanian Empire (7th century AD)

Israeli poet (1911–2007)

chief Qadi of the Abbasid Caliphate

Arab scholar