Firdawsi

Firdawsi

(9041 020 AD)

Iranian poet, Abul Qasirn Mansoor bin Hassan Firdowsi was born in 940 AD in Tus (Mashhad, Iran). Firdawsi is world famous poet because of his epic poem “Shahnama” (Book of Kings) comprising 60,000 couplets. Shahnama is universally a masterpiece on the understanding of human psychology and a splendid narration of the rise and fall of human history. Firdawsi died in 1020 AD. In 1934 AD, Reza Shah Pahlavi, King of Iran built a mausoleum over his grave, and in 1990 AD UNESCO had declared the year 1990 as the Year of Firdawsi and Shahnama.

Abul Hassan Khurqani (R.A)

(Died in 1033 AD)

Shaikh Ahul Hassan Mi bin Ja’far Kharqani was famous of shatnhiyat (sayings uttered in the state of snkur which is a state of mystic drunkenness which brought the legal punishment). He died in 425

AH/1033 AD.

Abu Ishaque Gazruni (R.A)

(963-1034 AD)

Ahu Ishaque Ibrahim bin Shaharyàr Gazruni was horn in 352 AH/963 AD and died in 426 AH/1034

AD.

Ibn-e-Sina (Avicenna)

(980-1037 AD)

Philosopher, scholar, theologian, physici, natural scientist and statesman, known in the West as Avi&enna Abu Ali Hussain bin Abdullah bin Hassan bin Ali bin Sina was born in northern Persia in the village of Afshanah, near Bukhara in 980 AD and died in the age Of 58 due to severe and prolonged attack of colic in Hamadan (Iran).. Among the early Muslim philosophers, he stands out as a thinker of exceptional power and versatility. The whole of his philosophy stems from his conception of God as a necessary being whose essence is to exist and from whom the universe necessarily flows.

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Abu Sa’id Abu al-Khair

(966/7-1048-9 AD)

Shaikh Abu Sa’id Fazlullah bin Abu Khair, a Sufi saint, born in a village Mihna, near Khawraan (Kohorasan-Iran) in Rabul Thani 356 AH/ March 966-7 AD and died and buried in same village on 04 Sha’baan, 440 AH/1Z January 1048-9 AD. He is famous because of his mystical Rubaiyaat and his book “Israar al-Tauhid” (Secrets of Tauhid).

Ibn-e-Rasheeq

(1000-1070 AD)

Abu Au al-Hassan bin Au bin Rasheeq Qairouani,a north African Arab critic, was born in Qairouan (Tunis) in 390 AH/1000 AD and spent his last days in Sicily (Italy) where he died in 463 AH/1070 AD. He is famous in the field of literature because of critical work “al-Umdet Fi Sana’at al-Sh’ar wa Naqdahu” (A Treatise on the Fundamentals of Poetry and Criticism) in which he laid down literary critical principles in details.

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Au Hajveri (R.A)

(1009-1072)

Abul Hassan AU bin Othman al-Jallabi al-Hajviri, famously known as “Data Ganj Bakhsh” was born in the village of Hajvir near Ghazni (Afghanistan) in 400 AH/1009 AD, travelled widely in the Muslim countries and lastly came and stayed in Lahore in 431 AH/1039 AD and died in Lahore in 465 AH/1072 AD. His principal work, “Kasizaf al-Mahjoob” (Unveiling of the Mysteries) th treated being fundamental and first book on Sufi’ism written in Persian

Nizam-ul-Mulk Toosi

(1018-1092 AD)

Original thinker, political philosopher; theologian, taraditionist, educationist, theorist, the reaL architect of the SaIjuk dynasty and founder of Madrasah Nizamiyah (Nizamaiyah University of Baghdad); Prime Minister for thirty years in the courts of Alp Arsalan Saijuki and hii successor son Malik Shah; Ahu Ali Hassan bin Ali bin Ishaq better known in history by his title Nizam al-Mulk Tusi to whom title of Atabeg was given by the successor of Alp Arsalan Malik Shah; was born in Radkan, a suburb of Tus, some eighty kilometers to the north of Mashhad, Iran in 408AH/ 1017-8 AD. He was assassinated by Abu Tahir Harith (Bu-Tahia Arrani) an Ismaili Fidai, a follower of Hasan bin al-Sabah in 48 AH/ 14/16

October 1092 AD and buried in the graveyard 0 99u

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