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Also Known As Vishtāspa • Gushtasp
Flourished 699 BCE - 500 BCE
Ardashīr I, coin, 3rd century; in the British Museum
Ardashīr I
Sāsānian king
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
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Nestorius
bishop of Constantinople
Khosrow I, crystal medallion, 6th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Khosrow I
king of Persia
Khosrow II
Khosrow II
king of Persia
Ahura Mazdā
Zarathushtra
Iranian prophet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
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Niẓām al-Mulk
Seljuq vizier
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
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al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
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Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian