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Al-Masudi

أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين المسعودي
🇮🇶 Iraq
c. 896 – September 956 (60 years old)

Celebrated 10th-century historian and geographer known as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs', author of The Meadows of Gold.

Cairo, Egypt
Rabia Balkhi
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Rabia Balkhi

رابعه بلخی
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
0900-01-01 – 0950-01-01 (50 years old)

First recorded female poet in the history of New Persian literature, revered across Central Asia for her passionate, rebellious love poetry written in the 10th-century Samanid court.

Balkh, Afghanistan
Bai Juyi
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Bai Juyi

白居易 (Bai Letian / Xiangshan Jushi)
🇨🇳 China
0772 – 0846 (74 years old)

Celebrated Tang dynasty poet and statesman (772–846), famous for his accessible plain-style verse, social criticism, and narrative masterpieces 'Song of Everlasting Regret' and 'The Pipa Song'.

Luoyang (Henan), China
Bai Juyi (Bo Juyi)
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Bai Juyi (Bo Juyi)

白居易
🇨🇳 China
28 February 772 – 8 September 846 (74 years old)

One of the greatest poets of China's Tang dynasty whose accessible, socially conscious verses—including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and The Pipa Player—were so plainspoken that even elderly village peasants could understand them.

Luoyang (Henan), China
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Sibawayh

سيبويه / عمرو بن عثمان
🇮🇷 Iran
c. 760 – c. 796 (36 years old)

Persian scholar from Shiraz universally revered as the 'father of Arabic grammar', author of 'Al-Kitab', the first systematic Arabic grammatical treatise.

Shiraz, Iran
Du Fu
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Du Fu

杜甫 (Du Shaoling / Shisheng)
🇨🇳 China
0712 – 0770 (58 years old)

Tang dynasty literary titan (712–770), honored as the 'Poet-Historian' and 'Poet-Sage' (Shisheng), whose profound verse chronicled the devastating An Lushan Rebellion and gave voice to ordinary human suffering.

Chengdu (Sichuan), China
Li Bai
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Li Bai

李白 (Li Po / Shixian)
🇨🇳 China
0701 – 0762 (61 years old)

Tang dynasty genius poet (701–762), revered as the 'Poet Immortal' (Shixian), whose romantic lyricism, effortless grace, and boundless imagination produced over a thousand immortal poems celebrated across the world.

Dangtu County (Anhui), China
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Jarir

جرير بن عطية
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
c. 650 – 728 (78 years old)

Celebrated Umayyad poet whose forty-year poetic duels (naqa'id) with Farazdaq and elegies for his wife defined Arab lyric satire.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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