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8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
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The list 8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate includes
Bashar ibn Burd, Timothy I (Nestorian Patriarch), Bishr al Hafi, Cosmas of Maiuma and Naubakht.
The list consists of 55 members
and 6 sublists.
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Bashar ibn Burd
Iranian, WriterOverview: Bashār ibn Burd (Arabic: بشار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Mura'ath, meaning "the wattled", was a poet of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods. Bashar was of Persian origin; his grandfather ...Date of birth: 714Date of death: 784Age: 69 (age at death)Nationality: IranianOccupation: Writer
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Rabia Basri
Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)
Overview: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) (714/717/718 — 801 CE) was a Muslim saint and Sufi mystic. She is known in some parts of the world as, Hazrat Bibi Rabia Basri, Rabia ...Date of death: 801Nationality: IraqiOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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3.Overview: Timothy I (c. 740 – 9 January 823) was the Patriarch of the Church of the East from 780 to 823 and one of the most influential patriarchs in its history. Respected both as an author, a church leader and ... 0
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Isa ibn Musa
Abbasid governor of KufaNationality: Iraqi 0
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Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
Descendant of Muhammad and revolutionary leader (died 762)Overview: Muhammad ibn Abdillah Al-Mahd ibn al-Hasan al-Muthanna ibn al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Abi Talib or Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (Arabic: ?, "Muhammad the Pure Souled") was a descendant of Muhammad through his ... 0
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Cosmas of Maiuma
Bishop and hymnographer
Overview: Saint Cosmas of Maiuma, also called Cosmas Hagiopolites ("of the Holy City"), Cosmas of Jerusalem, Cosmas the Melodist, or Cosmas the Poet (d. 773 or 794), was a bishop and an important hymnographer in ...Occupation: Writer 0
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Naubakht
Medieval Persian astrologerOverview: Nobakht Ahvazi (Persian: نوبخت اهوازى), also spelled Naubakht Ahvaz and Naubakht, along with his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province, Iran) who lived in the 8th ...Nationality: IranianOccupation: Scientist 0
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Mashallah ibn Athari
8/9th century Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer
Overview: Mā Shā’ Allāh ibn Athari (Arabic: ما شاء الله إبن أثري) (c.740–815 CE) was an eighth-century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. Originally from Khorasan he lived in Basra ...Nationality: IranianOccupation: Scientist 0
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Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht
8th century Persian scholarOverview: Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th-century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. He was son of the famous Naubakht, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed the ...Nationality: IranianOccupation: Scientist 0
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Abu Muslim
8th-century Persian general who led the Abbasid Revolution
Overview: Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (Persian: ابومسلم عبدالرحمان بن مسلم خراسانی) or Behzādān Pour Vandād Hormozd (بهزادان پور ونداد هرمزد) born 718/19 or 723/27, died in 755), was ...Nationality: IranianOccupation: Military 0
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Yahya ibn Ma'in
Hanafi Imam and Persian Muslim scholar (774–847)Overview: Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn (Arabic: يحيى بن معين) was a classical Islamic scholar of Persian origin.Occupation: Jurist 0
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Ibn al-Mubarak
Islamic hadith scholar and jurist (726–797)Overview: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak (118/726-797 AH/CE; Arabic: عبد الله بن المبارك) was born during the reign of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. ‘Abdullah ibn Mubarak was an early, pious Muslim known for his memory and ...Occupation: Jurist 0
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Ishaq al-Mawsili
Arab musician of Persian origin (767/772 – 850)Overview: Ishaq al-Mawsili (Arabic: إسحاق الموصلي) or Ishaq Mawsili (Persian: اسحاق موصلی) (born 766 AD in Rey, Iran - died 889 AD in Baghdad, Iraq) was a Persian musician of the Abbasid court at ...Nationality: PersianOccupation: Musician 0
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14.Overview: Aban b. 'Abd al-Hamid al-Lahiqi (al-Raqashi) (Persian: ابان لاحقی) of Basra (c. 750–815 or 816) was a Persian court poet of the Barmakids in Baghdad. He set into Arabic verse popular stories of ...Nationality: PersianOccupation: Writer 0
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Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
Muslim jurist and theologian (c. 777–852)Overview: Abū Yaʻqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mukhallad al-Ḥanẓalī (Arabic: أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن إبراهيم بن مخْلد الحنظلي), commonly known as Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh (Arabic: إسحاق بن راهويه; 161 AH – 238 AH) ...Occupation: Writer 0
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Muhammad al-Shaybani
Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)Overview: Abu 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibnu-l-Ḥasan Ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu ...Occupation: Writer 0
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Ulayya bint al-Mahdi
Abbasid princess, poet, and musicianOverview: Ulayya bint al-Mahdi (Arabic: عُلَيّة بنت المهدي, ʿUlayya bint al-Mahdī, 777-825) was an Abbasid princess, noted for her legacy as a poet and musician.Occupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Theophilus of Edessa
Greco-Syriac astrologer (695–785)Overview: Theophilus of Edessa (Arabic: ثوافل بن توما) (695–785 CE), also known as Theophilus ibn Tuma and Thawafil, was a Greco-Syriac medieval astrologer and scholar in Mesopotamia. In the later part of ...Nationality: GreekOccupation: Writer 0
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Overview: Abu Ma'shar Al-Sindi, (Latin) Abulmazar (Arabic) ابو ماشرالسندي (d.170 A.H.) : was a scholar of Hadith literature (8th century Hijra) from Mansura, Sindh now the part of Pakistan.Occupation: Writer 0
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Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Persian translator and author
Overview: Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (Arabic: ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (Persian: روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ...Nationality: IranianOccupation: Writer 0
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