List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
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The following is a list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.
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Abdul Qadir Gilani (12th century) theologian and philosopher
Abu al-Qasim Muqane'i (10th century) physician
Abu Dawood (c. 817–889), Islamic scholar
Abu Hanifa (699–767), Islamic scholar
Abu Said Gorgani (10th century)
'Adud al-Dawla (936–983), scientific patron
Ahmad ibn Farrokh (12th century), physician
Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din (11th century), physician and chemist
Alavi Shirazi (1670–1747), royal physician in Mughal India
Amuli, Muhammad ibn Mahmud (c. 1300–1352), physician
Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–971), mathematician and astronomer
Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah (1006–1088), Islamic scholar
Aqa-Kermani (18th century), physician
Aqsara'i (?–1379), physician
Abu Hafsa Yazid, physician
Arzani, Muqim (18th century), physician
Astarabadi (15th century), physician
Aufi, Muhammad (1171–1242), scientist and historian
Albubather, physician and astrologer
Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath, physician
Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri, theologian and philosopher
Abu al-Hasan al-Ahwazi, mathematician and astronomer
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Brethren of Purity
Bahmanyār, philosopher
Al-Baghawi (c. 1041–1122), Islamic scholar
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547–1621), poet, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer
Baha Al-Dowleh Razi (died c. 915), physician
Al-Baladhuri (?–892), historian
Abu Ali Bal'ami (10th century), historian
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar, astrologer
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician
Banū Mūsā brothers (9th century)
Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, historian
Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi, historian and Islamic scholar
Al-Bayhaqi, faqih and muhadith
Muhammad Baqir Behbahani (1706–1791), theologian
Bubares (died after 480 BC), engineer
Ibn Bibi (13th century), historian of the Seljuks of Rum
Biruni (973–1048), astronomer and mathematician
Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870), Islamic scholar
Sahl ibn Bishr (c. 786–845 ?), astrologer, mathematician
Bukhtishu (8th century?), Persian Christian physician of Academy of Gundishapur
Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn (c. 940–1058), Christian physician in Persia
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu (9th century), Christian physician
Bukhtishu, Yuhanna (9th century), Christian physician
Borzuya (6th century), a.k.a. Borzouyeh-i Tabib, physician of Academy of Gundishapur
Bibi Monajemeh Nishaburi (13th century), mathematician and astronomer
Birjandi (?–1528), astronomer and mathematician
Muhammad Bal'ami, historian
Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad Al-Akhawyni Bokhari, physician
Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami
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Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815–896), astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian
Ibn Durustawayh (872–958), grammarian, lexicographer and student of the Quran and hadith
Ibn Qutaybah Dinwari (828–885), historian and theologian
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Abubakr Esfarayeni (13th century?), physician
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Al-Farghani (d. 880), astronomer, known in Latin as Alfraganus
Al-Farabi (872–950) (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), philosopher
Fazari, Ibrahim (?–777), mathematician and astronomer
Fazari, Mohammad (?–796), mathematician and astronomer
Feyz Kashani, Mohsen (?–1680), theologian
Firishta (1560–1620), historian
Ibn al-Faqih, historian and geographer
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al‐Farisi (d.
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