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  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-12743
  • Diyānat Khān, Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī, courtier and administrator, d 1672/732
  • Apollonius, of Perga, mathematician, 200 BC1
  • Archimedes, c 250 BC-212 BC1
  • Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/897707811
  • Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, polymath scientist and translator, 973?-10481
  • Hastings, Warren, governor-general of Bengal, 1732-18181
  • Kircher, Athanasius, Jesuit polymath, 1602-16801
  • Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd, Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, 1236?-1310?1
  • Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1004-11011
  • Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʿAlī, fl 17451
  • al-Nahī, ʿAbd al-Karīm, scribe, fl 16561
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Mathematician, astronomer, religious scholar, poet, philanthropist, 1547-1621, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/270522621
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