Shia Muslims

thumb|Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi Abolqasem Mansour bin Hassan Tusi (940–1025), better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.

thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".

8th-century Islamic alchemist and author

Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576

Iranian dynasty ruling of central and western Iran (934–1062)

Shia Islamic state in northern Mesopotamia and Syria from 890 to 1004

Iranian Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet

Arab historian (737–819)

6th ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India

Arab dynasty from 990 to 1096

Muslim historian

Son of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and cousin of Husain ibn Ali (died 680)

first ruler of the Qutb Shahi sultanate

Iranian philosopher and inventor

Islamic figure and companion of Muhammad

Historian, ambassador and confidant to the King

Companion of Ali

Narjis () is believed by the Twelvers to have been the mother of their Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. His birth is said to have been providentially concealed by his father, Hasan al-Askari, out of fear of Abbasid persecution as they sought to eliminate an expected child of the eleventh Imam, whom persistent rumors described as a savior. After the death of his father in 260 AH (873-874 CE), al-Mahdi is believed by the Twelvers to have entered a state of occultation which continues until his rise in the end of time to establish peace and justice on earth. The origin of Narjis is recorded as the

Islamic Caliphate in Iraq

Early Islamic scholar (d. 680)

Arab dynasty circa 990-1081

companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Shia muhaddith

the third of the four Deputies of the Hiden Imam in Twelver Shi’ism

Muslim scholar

Shiite scholar, 8th C.

The '''Banu'l-Furat () were a Shia family of civil functionaries of the Abbasid Caliphate in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, several of whom held the office of vizier. In the sources, the members of the family are often simply designated as Ibn al-Furat'''. Along with their rivals, the Banu'l-Jarrah, they controlled the Caliphate's central government in the early decades of the 10th century.