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Mīr ʿAlī of Tabriz
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Born c.1360 • Tabrīz • Iran
Died 1420 • Tabrīz • Iran
Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad
Persian painter
Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Persian poet
ʿAbd al-Qādir Badāʾūnī
Indo-Persian historian
Aga Khan III
Nizārī imam
Salmān al-Fārisī
companion of Muḥammad
Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī
Islamic mystic
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
Ibn Miskawayh
Islamic scholar
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist