Bukhara - Notable People

Notable People

Many notable people lived in Bukhara in the past. Among them are:

  • Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari (810-870) - Islamic scholar and compiler of hadiths
  • Avicenna (Abu Ali ibn Sina) (980-1037) - physician and person of encyclopedic knowledge
  • Bal'ami: Abolfazl Muhammad and his son Abu-Ali Mohammad, two famous viziers of Samanid kings, historians and patrons of art and literature
  • Abubakr Narshakhi (10th century) - historian who wrote History of Bukhara
  • Sadiduddin Muhammad Aufi (1171-1242) historian, scientist, and author.
  • Hazrat Syed Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari(c. 595-690 AH, 1199-1291 CE)
  • Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389)
  • Amir Kulal (died in 1370)
  • Kiromi Bukhoroi
  • An Lushan
  • Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954)
  • Abdurauf Fitrat
  • Oksana Chusovitina
  • Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar

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