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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 10th century.
Title | Author | Description | Date |
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Book of Fixed Stars | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Treatise on astronomy including a star catalogue and star charts | c. 964 [1] |
The Pillow Book | Sei Shōnagon | diary / journal / memoire | c. 990s-1000s Japan |
Kavijanasrayam | Malliya Rechana | Telugu poetic prosody book | c. 900-950 |
Paphnutius | Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim | Play | c. 935-1002 |
Vikramarjuna Vijaya | Adikavi Pampa | Kannada version of the epic Mahabharata | c. 939? |
Al-Tasrif | Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi | Medical encyclopedia | Completed in 1000 [2] |
Josippon | Joseph ben Gorion | History of the Jews from the destruction of Babylon to the Siege of Jerusalem | 940 [3] |
Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity | Brethren of Purity | Philosophical-scientific encyclopedia | 10th century [4] |
Aleppo Codex | Shlomo ben Buya'aa | Copy of the Bible | 920 [5] |
De Administrando Imperio | Constantine VII | Political geography of the world | c. 950 [6] |
Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions | Associated with Constantine VII | Treatises providing information on military campaigns in Asia Minor | Based on material compiled in the early 10th century, current form dates to the late 950s [7] |
Geoponica | Compiled under the patronage of Constantine VII | Agricultural manual [8] | Compiled in its present form in the 10th century [9] |
Þórsdrápa | Eilífr Goðrúnarson [10] | Skaldic poem with Thor as its protagonist | 10th century [11] |
Hákonarmál | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem composed in memory of Haakon I of Norway | After 961 [12] |
"Háleygjatal" | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equal of the Hárfagri dynasty [13] | End of the 10th century [14] |
Kitab al-Aghani | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Collection of songs, biographical information, and information relating to the lives and customs of the early Arabs and of the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates [15] | 10th century [16] |
Shahnameh | Ferdowsi | Epic poem | Begun c. 977, finished 1010 [17] |
Benedictional of St. Æthelwold | Godeman (a scribe) for Æthelwold of Winchester | Benedictional including pontifical benedictions for use at mass at different points of the liturgical year | Written and illuminated between 963 and 984 [18] |
Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise | Leo VI the Wise | Handbook dealing with military formations and weapons | Early 10th century [19] |
Exeter Book | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric | Collection of Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament" | Copied c. 975 [20] |
"Deor" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book ) [20] | The only surviving Old English poem with a fully developed refrain; possibly of a Norse background [21] | Copied c. 975 [20] |
"The Rhyming Poem" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book ) [20] | Poem in couplets utilising rhyme, which was rarely used in Anglo-Saxon literature [22] | Copied c. 975 [20] |
Extensive Records of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Collection of anecdotes and stories | 977–78 [23] |
Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Encyclopedia | 984 [24] |
Greek Anthology | Originally compiled by Meleager, combined by Constantinus Cephalas with works by Philippus of Thessalonica, Diogenianus, Agathias and others; part of a later revision compiled by Maximus Planudes | Collection of Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs and rhetorical exercises | Originally compiled in the 1st century BCE, expanded in the 9th century, revised and augmented in the 10th century, expanded again from a manuscript compiled in 1301 [25] |
Wamyō Ruijushō (倭名類聚抄) | Compiled by Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順) | Collection of Japanese terms | Mid-930s [26] |
Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集) | Ordered by Emperor Murakami | Imperial waka anthology | c. 951 [27] |
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語) | Unknown | Uta monogatari (narrative fiction with waka poetry) | c. 951-956 |
History of the Prophets and Kings | Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Universal history | Unfinished at the time of Tabari's death in 956 [28] |
Praecepta Militaria | Attributed to Nikephoros II Phokas | Military manual | 965 [29] |
Escorial Taktikon | Edited by Nikolaos Oikonomides (1972) [30] | Precedence list | Drawn up between 975 and 979 [31] |
Bodhi Vamsa | Upatissa of Upatissa Nuwara | Prose poem describing the bringing of a branch of the Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century | c. 980 [32] |
Old History of the Five Dynasties | Xue Juzheng | Account of China's Five Dynasties | 974 [33] |
Chronicon Salernitanum | Anonymous [34] | Annals | 974 [35] |
Chronicon Æthelweardi | Æthelweard | Latin version of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | After 975 and probably before 983 [36] |
Gesta Berengarii imperatoris | Anonymous [37] | Epic poem | Early 10th century [38] |
Kokin Wakashū (古今和歌集) | Compiled by a committee of bureaucrats recognised as superior poets | Anthology of Japanese poetry | Compiled c. 905 [39] |
Annales Cambriae | Diverse sources | Chronicle believed to cover a period beginning 447 | c. 970 [40] |
Waltharius | Unknown Frankish monk | Epic poem about the Germanic Heroic Age | First circulated/published c. 850 to c. 950 [41] |
Leofric Missal | Unknown scribes | Service book | Core written c. 900, with an addition made c. 980 [42] |
"Eiríksmál" | Unknown | Poem composed in memory of Eric Bloodaxe | Probably 10th century [12] |
Khaboris Codex | Unknown | Oldest known copy of the New Testament | 10th century [43] |
Suda | Unknown [44] | Encyclopedia | 10th century [45] |
Tractatus coislinianus | Unknown | Manuscript containing a statement of a Greek theory of comedy | 10th century [46] |
Beowulf | Unknown | Epic | Believed to have been written between the 7th and 10th centuries [47] |
Ishinpō | Tanba Yasunori | Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine | Issued in 982 [48] |
Hudud al-'alam | Unknown | Concise geography of the world | Begun 982–983 [49] |
Ōjōyōshū | Genshin | Kanbun Buddhist text | 985 |
Karnataka Kadambari | Nagavarma I | Romance in champu (mixed prose and verse) | Late 10th century |
Chhandombudhi | Nagavarma I | Treatise on prosody in Vijayanagara literature in Kannada | c. 990 |
Completes the first draft of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) | Ferdowsi | a long epic poem, the national epic of Greater Iran | 999 [50] |
Tomida femina | Anonymous | Charm, the oldest known complete Occitan poem | 10th century |
The Battle of Maldon | Anonymous | Old English heroic poem (earliest manuscript lost 1731) | Between the Battle of Maldon in Spring 991 and 1000? [51] |
Passio Sancti Eadmundi | Abbo of Fleury | Hagiographic account of the death of Edmund the Martyr | 10th century |
Name | Description | Dates |
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Abu Firas al-Hamdani | Arab poet | 932–968 [52] |
Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam | Algebraist | c. 850 – c. 930 [53] |
Ælfric of Eynsham | Author of homilies in Old English, and three works to assist in learning Latin, the Grammar, the Glossary and the Colloquy (probably with Aelfric Bata. Also a Bible translator | c. 955 – c. 1010 [54] |
Æthelweard | Anglo-Saxon historian | Before 973 – c. 998 [55] |
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 976–1041 [56] |
Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri | Philosopher born in modern Iran | Died 992 [57] |
Al-Maʿarri | Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria | 973–1057 [58] |
Al-Masudi | Arab historian and geographer | c. 896 – 956 [59] |
Al-Mutanabbi | Arabic poet | 915–965 [60] |
Ibn al-Nadim | Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia | c. 932 – c. 990 [61] |
Al-Natili | Arabic-language author in the medical field | fl.c. 985–90 [62] |
Alchabitius | Author of Al-madkhal ilā sināʿat Aḥkām al-nujūm, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq | fl.c. 950 [63] |
Aldred the Scribe | Author of the glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels | 10th century [64] |
Alhazen | Mathematician, died in Cairo | c. 965 – c. 1040 [65] |
Asser | Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne | died 1909 [66] |
Bal'ami | Vizier to the Samanids and translator of the Ṭabarī into Persian | Died c. 992–7 [67] |
Abu-Shakur Balkhi | Persian writer | 915–960s [68] |
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi | Persian Muslim polymath | 849–934 [69] |
Rabia Balkhi | Arabic- and Persian-language poet | Died 940 [70] |
Bard Boinne | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 932 [71] |
Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī | Arab astronomer | c. 850 – c. 929 [72] |
David ben Abraham al-Fasi | Karaite lexicographer from Fes | 10th century [73] |
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī | Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids | 973 – after 1050 [74] |
Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī | Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min ʾilm al-ḥisāb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent | 940 – 997 or 998 [75] |
Cináed ua hArtacáin | Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems | Died 974 [76] |
Constantine VII | Byzantine emperor and author of De Administrando Imperio and De Ceremoniis | 905–959 [77] |
Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | Poet, probably born in Ṭūs | After 932 – c. 976 [78] |
Shabbethai Donnolo | Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology | 913 – after 982 [79] |
Egill Skallagrímsson | Viking skald and adventurer | c. 910 – c. 990 [80] |
Eilífr Goðrúnarson | Icelandic skald | c. 1000 [81] |
Einarr Helgason | Skald for Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson | fl. late 10th century [82] |
Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria | Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology | 876–940 [83] |
Eysteinn Valdason | Icelandic skald | c. 1000 [84] |
Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Icelandic skald | Died c. 990 [85] |
Al-Farabi | Muslim philosopher | c. 878 – c. 950 [86] |
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music | 897–967 [15] |
Ferdowsi | Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh , the Persian national epic | c. 935 – c. 1020–26 [87] |
Flodoard | French historian and chronicler | 894–966 [88] |
Frithegod | British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters | fl.c. 950 – c. 958 [89] |
Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原 公任) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | c. 910 – c. 966 [90] |
Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原 公任) | Japanese poet and critic responsible for the initial gathering of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 966–1041 [91] |
Fujiwara no Takamitsu (藤原 高光) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 994 [90] |
Fujiwara no Tametoki (藤原 為時) | Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu [92] | Late 10th – early 11th century [93] |
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (藤原 敏行) | Japanese poet | Died c. 901 [94] |
Kushyar Gilani | Iranian astronomer | fl. second half of the 10th/early 11th century [95] |
Guthormr sindri | Norwegian skald | 10th century [96] |
Nathan ben Isaac ha-Babli | Babylonian historian | 10th century [97] |
Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld | Icelandic skald [98] | Died c. 1007 [99] |
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani | Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre | 968–1008 [100] |
Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī | Arabian geographer | Died 945 [101] |
Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi | Armenian man of letters | c. 840 – c. 930 [102] |
Hrotsvitha | German dramatist and poet | c. 935 – c. 1002 [103] |
Ibn al-Faqih | Persian historian and geographer | Died 903 [104] |
Ibn al-Jazzar | Physician | Died 970/980 [105] |
Ibn al-Qūṭiyya | Historian of Muslim Spain, born in Seville and of Visigothic descent [106] | Died 977 [107] |
Ibn Duraid | Arabian poet | 837–934 [108] |
Ibn Hawqal | Author of Kitāb al-masālik wa'l-mamālik, a book on geography; born in Nisibis | Second half of the 10th century – after 988 [109] |
Ibn Juljul | Author of Tabaqāt al atibbāʾ wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine | 944 – c. 994 [110] |
Ibn Khordadbeh | Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of Persian descent | c. 820 – c. 912 [111] |
Ioane-Zosime | Georgian religious writer, hymnographer and translator | 10th century [112] |
Lady Ise (伊勢) | Japanese waka poet, [113] mother of Nakatsukasa [114] | c. 877 – c. 940 [113] |
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon | Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt | 832–932 [115] |
Israel the Grammarian | European scholar, poet and bishop | c. 895–c. 965 [116] |
Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部) | Japanese waka poet | Born c. 976 [117] |
Abraham ben Jacob | Spanish Jewish geographer | fl. second half of the 10th century [118] |
Jayadeva | Indian mathematician | Lived before 1073 [119] |
Al-Karaji | Mathematician, lived in Baghdad | 953 – c. 1029 [120] |
Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin | Astronomer and number theorist from Khurasan | c. 900 – c. 971 [121] |
Abu-Mahmud Khojandi | Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand | c. 945 – 1000 [122] |
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi | Author of Mafātih al-'ulũm (Keys of the Sciences) | fl. c. 975 [123] |
Ki no Tokibumi | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl.c. 950 [124] |
Ki no Tomonori (紀 時文) | Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū | c. 850 – c. 904 [125] |
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀 貫之) | Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū | c. 872 – c. 945 [126] |
Kishi Joō (徽子女王) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 929–985 [127] |
Kiyohara no Motosuke (清原 元輔) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber [124] and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei Shōnagon [128] | 908–990 [124] [128] |
Leo the Deacon | Byzantine historian | Born c. 950 [129] |
Liutprand of Cremona | Italian historian and author | c. 922 – 972 [130] |
Luo Yin (羅隱) | Japanese poet | 833–909 [131] |
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi | Author of Kāmil al-Ṣinā'ah al-Tibbiyyah, a compendium; born near Shiraz | First quarter of the 10th century – 994 [132] |
Abu Nasr Mansur | Astronomer, born in Gīlān | c. 950 – c. 1036 [133] |
Mansur Al-Hallaj | Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the Ṭawāsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza | 857–922 [134] |
Ebn Meskavayh | Persian writer on topics including history, theology, philosophy and medicine | Died 1030 [135] |
Symeon the Metaphrast | Principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Greek Orthodox Church | Second half of the 10th century [136] |
Mibu no Tadamine | Japanese waka poet [137] and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | fl. 898–920 [90] |
Michitsuna no Haha ( 藤原道綱母) | Author of Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years) | Died 995 [138] |
Minamoto no Kintada (源 公忠) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 889–948 [90] |
Minamoto no Muneyuki (源 宗于) | Japanese poet [139] | Died 939 [140] |
Minamoto no Saneakira (源 信明) | Japanese poet | 916–970 [141] |
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源 重之) | Japanese poet | Died c. 1000 [142] |
Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber [124] and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals [90] | 911–983 [90] [124] |
Vācaspati Miśra | Indian polymath | 900–980 [143] |
Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi | Poet born in Seville [144] | Died 973 [145] |
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Writer on theology, literature and history, born in Tabriz | 839–923 [146] |
Al-Muqaddasi | Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography [147] | c. 946–7 – 1000 [148] |
Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz | Writer and, for one day, caliph of the Abbasid dynasty | Died 908 [149] |
Nagavarma I | Author of the Chandōmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics | Late 10th century [150] |
Nakatsukasa (中務) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise | c. 912 – after 989 [114] |
Al-Nayrizi | Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz | c. 865 – c. 922 [151] |
Jacob ben Nissim | Philosopher, lived in Kairouan | 10th century [152] |
Nōin (能因) | Japanese poet | 988–1050? [153] |
Notker Labeo | German theologian, philologist, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet | c. 950 – 1022 [154] |
Odo of Cluny | Author of a biography of Gerald of Aurillac, a series of moral essays, some sermons, an epic poem and 12 choral antiphons | 878/9–942 [155] |
Óengus mac Óengusa | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 930 [156] |
Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto (大中臣 頼基) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 958 [90] |
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (大中臣 能宣) | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | 922–991 [124] |
Ono no Komachi (小野 小町) | Japanese poet | 834–900 [157] |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (凡河内 躬恒) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 898–922 [158] |
Adikavi Pampa | Kannada-language poet | 902–945 [159] |
Abū Sahl al-Qūhī | Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan | c. 940 – c. 1000 [160] |
Qusta ibn Luqa | Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy | Probably c. 820 – probably c. 912–913 [161] |
Ratherius | Author of works including a criticism of the social classes of his time and two defences of his right to the Diocese of Liège | c. 887 – 974 [162] |
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi | Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in Rey, Iran | 865–925 [163] |
Regino of Prüm | Chronicler and author of works on ecclesiastical discipline and liturgical singing, born in Altrip | Died 915 [164] |
Richerus | Chronicler from Reims | Died after 998 [165] |
Ahmad ibn Rustah | Persian author of a geographical compendium | Died after 903 [166] |
Al-Saghani | Mathematician and astronomer who flourished in Turkmenistan | Died 990 [167] |
Ibn Sahl | Geometer | fl. late 10th century [168] |
Sakanoue no Mochiki | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl. c. 950 [124] |
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) | Japanese diarist and poet | c. 966 – c. 1025 [169] |
Abu Sulayman Sijistani | Philosopher from Sijistan | c. 932 – c. 1000 [170] |
Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani | Islamic philosopher | fl. 971 [171] |
Sijzi | Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in Sijistan | c. 945 – c. 1020 [172] |
Ibrahim ibn Sinan | Geometer from Baghdad | 908–946 [173] |
Farrukhi Sistani | Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni | 10th–11th centuries [174] |
Somadeva Suri | South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature | 10th century [175] |
Sosei (素性) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 859–923 [90] |
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Astronomer in Iran | 903–986 [176] |
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞) | Japanese statesman, historian and poet | 845–903 [177] |
Symeon the Studite | "Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian [178] and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks [179] | 917 or 924 [180] – c. 986–7 [181] |
Ukhtanes of Sebastia | Chronicler of the history of Armenia | c. 935 – 1000 [182] |
Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi | Mathematician, possibly from Damascus | c. 920 – c. 980 [183] |
Vaṭeśvara | Indian mathematician | Born 802 or 880 [184] |
Wang Yucheng (王禹偁) | Chinese Song dynasty poet and official | 954–1001 |
Widukind of Corvey | Saxon historian | Died c. 1004 [185] |
Xue Juzheng (薛居正) | Author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties , an account of China's Five Dynasties | 912–981 [33] |
Ibn Yunus | Egyptian astronomer and astrologer | 950–1009 [186] |
Ahmad ibn Yusuf | Egyptian mathematician | fl. c. 900–905, died 912/913 [187] |
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi | Physician and author of Al-Tasrif , from Al-Andalus | 936–1013 [188] |
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Abdul Qadir Gilani was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders.
Rawwadid, Ravvadid, or Banū Rawwād (955–1071) was a Sunni Muslim Kurdish dynasty, centered in the northwestern region of Adharbayjan (Azerbaijan) between the late 8th and early 13th centuries.
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, who was the fourth caliph in Sunni Islam and the first imam in Shia Islam. Ibn al-Hanafiyya was an effective lieutenant for his father Ali during his caliphate. After the assassination of Ali and the deaths of his two sons Hasan and Husayn, many recognized Ibn al-Hanafiyya as the head of the House of Ali. Claiming to represent Ibn al-Hanafiyya, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi rose in Iraq in 686 to avenge Husayn and his relatives, who were massacred in 680 CE by forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid bin Mu'awiya. The quiescent Ibn al-Hanafiyya did not actively associate with this rebellion but was still rescued by Mukhtar when he was detained by the rival caliph Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. Support for Ibn al-Hanafiyya continued even after the defeat and death of Mukhtar in 686–687 in the form of the Kaysanites, a now-extinct Shia sect that traced the imamate to Ibn al-Hanafiyya and his descendants, particularly his son Abu Hashim. After the death of Ibn al-Hanafiyya in 700–701, some Kaysanites declared that he was the Mahdi, the eschatological Islamic leader who would reappear in the end of time and eradicate injustice and evil. The Kaysanites later provided the organizational structure for the Abbasids to overthrew the Umayyads in 750–751.
The Farighunids were an Iranian dynasty that ruled Guzgan in the late 9th, 10th and early 11th centuries. They were ultimately deposed by the ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, Sultan Mahmud.
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri was a 10th-century travel author and Islamic geographer who wrote valuable accounts in Arabic of the many Muslim territories he visited during the Abbasid era of the Islamic Golden Age. There is no consensus regarding his origin. Some sources describe him as Persian, while others state he was Arab. The Encyclopedia Iranica states: "Biographical data are very meager. From his nesbas he appears to have been a native of Eṣṭaḵr in Fārs, but it is not known whether he was Persian".
Abu Tahir Sulayman al-Jannabi was a Persian warlord and the ruler of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn. He became leader of the state in 923, after ousting his older brother Abu'l-Qasim Sa'id. He immediately began an expansionist phase, raiding Basra that year. He raided Kufa in 927, defeating an Abbasid army in the process, and threatened the Abbasid capital Baghdad in 928 before pillaging much of Iraq when he could not gain entry to the city.
Occultation in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that the Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, has already been born and he was subsequently concealed, but he will reemerge and he will establish justice and peace on earth at the end of time. The signs of his (re)appearance are largely common in Shia and Sunni, , and the belief in the eschatological Mahdi remains popular among all Muslims, possibly owing to numerous traditions to this effect in canonical Sunni and Shia sources.
The Maʾmunids were an independent dynasty of Iranian rulers in Khwarazm. Their reign was short-lived (995–1017), and they were in turn replaced by the expansionist Ghaznavids.
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) was a Persian encyclopedic writer, scientist, and traditionalist theologian. He is referred to as "al-Sayyid al-Sharif" in sources due to his alleged descent from Ali ibn Abi Taleb. He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgan, and became a professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Timur in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.
The Mikalid family, also known as the Mikalis, was a prominent Iranian aristocratic family of Khorasan from the 9th century to the 11th century. They were descended from the pre-Islamic nobility of Samarkand.
Abuʾl-Ḥasan al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan Maymandī was a Persian vizier of the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud of Ghazni and the latter's son Mas'ud I of Ghazni.
Abu’l-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAbbās, better known as Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād, also known as al-Ṣāḥib (الصاحب), was a Persian scholar and statesman, who served as the grand vizier of the Buyid rulers of Ray from 976 to 995.
Amir Abu'l-Abbas Fadl, better known as Fadluya, was a Kurdish chieftain of the Shabankara in Fars. He was the son of Ali ibn Hasan ibn Ayyub of the Ramani clan of the Shabankara, who were Kurds from Syria that migrated to Fars, and was the founder of the Shabankara dynasty in Fars, which lasted sporadically from 1030 to 1355. The Shabankaras occupied the mountain region of Kuhgiluya and maintained a great scale of independence.