Balkhi ( fa, بلخی, "from/ of

Balkh ), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001 , pushpin_map=Afghanistan#Bactria#West Asia , pushpin_relief=yes , pushpin_label_position=bottom , pushpin_mapsize=300 , pushpin_map_caption=Location in Afghanistan ...

," a city in modern-day

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

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Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also ''Albusar'', ''Albuxar''; full name ''Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī'' ; , AH 171–272), was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest ast ...

(787-886), Afghan astrologer, astronomer and Islamic philosopher *

Abu-Shakur Balkhi Abu Shakur Balkhi ( fa, ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian poets of the Samanid period. He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three '' masnavis'', the work ''Āfarin nama'' (written in 944) ...

(915-?), Persian poet *

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi ( fa, ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Greate ...

(850-934), Persian geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist *

Hiwi al-Balkhi Ḥiwi al-Balkhi (9th century) ( he, חיוי אל-בלכי, also Hiwwi or Chivi) was an exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century born in Balkh, Khorasan (modern Afghanistan). It is not entirely clear whether Hiwi was ...

, 9th century exegete and Biblical critic *

Ismael Balkhi Sayed Isma'el Balkhi ( prs, سید اسماعیل بلخی) was one of the most prominent Hazara reformist leaders in 20th-century Afghanistan. An innovative poet and well-known mystic, charismatic political leader and untiring reformist; B ...

(1918-1968), Afghan political activist and Hazara reformist leader *

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

(1207-1273), better known in the English-speaking world as Rumi, Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic *

Rabia Balkhi Rabia Balkhi, also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari) was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known female poet to write in Persian. A non- mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed into t ...

, possibly first female New Persian poet believed to have lived in the 10th century * Ibn Balkhi, a conventional name for a 12th-century Iranian historian and author of the Persian book ''Fārs-Nāma'' *

Sediqa Balkhi Sediqa Balkhi ( prs, صدیقه بلخی) is an Afghan politician and former Minister in the government of Hamid Karzai. Early life Balkhi was born in 1950 in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan. Her father, Ismael Balkhi, was imprisoned ...

, Afghan politician *

Sultan Balkhi Shah Sultan Balkhi ( bn, শাহ সুলতান বলখী, fa, ), also known by his sobriquet, Mahisawar ( bn, মাহিসওয়ার, fa, , Mâhi-Savâr, Fish-rider), was a 14th-century Muslim saint. His name is associated wi ...

, 14th-century Muslim preacher based in Bengal

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