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Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali, ( ( – 19 December 1111), Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Iranian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history.
Nizam al-Mulk
Persian Seljuk scholar, politician, vizier and court official (1018–1092)
Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi
Persian philosopher and founder of the school of Illuminationism
Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi
Arab Muslim preacher and scholar (c.1116–1201)
Al-Khazini
Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (; flourished 1115–1130) was an Iranian astronomer, mechanician and physicist of Byzantine Greek origin who lived during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables, written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar ('''', 1115), are considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. He is considered to have been one of the greatest scientists of his era, among the greatest makers of scientific instruments of any time, and as "the physicist of all physicists".
Ibn al-Qalanisi
Arab historian (1073-1160)
Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
12th century Iraqi Islamic philosopher, physicist and physician
Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī
Persian mathematician
Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani
Iranian writer and academic
Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi
Iranian calligrapher and poet
Al-Isfizari
Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī (; fl. late 11th or early 12th century) was an Islamic mathematician, astronomer and engineer from Khurasan. According to the historian and geographer Ibn al-Athir and the polymath Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, he worked in the Seljuq observatory of Isfahan. The Persian writer Nezami Aruzi met him in Balkh in (in present-day Afghanistan) in 1112 or 1113.
Afdhal al-Din abu Hamid Kermani
Iranian historian and physician
Al-Kharaqī
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
Zahir al-Din Nishapuri
Al-Mafarrukhí
'''Mufaddal ibn Sa'd al-Mafarrukhi, commonly known as Mafarrukhi', was an Iranian historian who was the author of the Arabic Kitab Mahasin Isfahan'' (Book of the Beauties of Isfahan), a local history of his hometown Isfahan. Modern historians generally agree that Maffarrukhi composed his work during the reign of the Seljuk sultan Malik-Shah I ().
Ibn al-Shajari