Poets of the medieval Islamic world

Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)

Mansour al-Hallaj () or Mansour Hallaj () ( 26 March 922) (Hijri 309 AH) was a mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He was best known for his saying, "I am the Truth" ("''Ana'l-Ḥaqq''"), which many saw as a claim to divinity, while others interpreted it as an instance of annihilation of the ego, which allowed God to speak through him. Al-Hallaj gained a wide following as a preacher before he became implicated in power struggles of the Abbasid court and was executed after a long period of confinement on religious and political charges. Although most of his Sufi contemporaries disapproved of his

Arab historian, writer, poet and musicologist (897–967)

Persian poet who wrote in Arabic (714–783)

Iranian poet

13th-century poet and theologian

Ghaznavid poet

9th-century Persian poet and Abbasid courtier

Persian poet

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persian music theorist

Persian physician