Great minds

Scholars, poets and rulers

Scholars, poets, rulers and artists linked to Uzbekistan: their lives, their work and the places where a traveller can still find them.

people: 60
regions: 14

Muhammad al-Khwarizmi Ahmad al-Farghani Imam al-Bukhari Imam al-Tirmidhi Ismail Samani Abu Bakr al-Qaffal al-Shashi Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Ibn Sina (Avicenna)Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi Abdul Khaliq Gijduvani Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani Najm al-Din Kubra Jalal al-Din Mangburni Pahlavon Mahmud Bahauddin Naqshband Amir Temur (Timur)Mirzo Ulugh Beg Khoja Ahrar Alisher Navoi Kamoliddin Behzod Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur Abdullah Khan II Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan Boborahim Mashrab Jahon Otin Uvaysiy Nodira Muhammad Rizo Ogahiy Ajiniyaz Qosybay uli Ahmad Donish Berdakh Khudayar Khan Muhammad Rahim Khan II (Feruz)Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich Muhammad Aminkhoja Muqimiy Zokirjon Furqat Is'hoqxon To'ra Ibrat Mahmudkhoja Behbudiy Munavvar Qori Abdurashidkhonov Sadriddin Ayni Abdurauf Fitrat Alexander Volkov Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy Abdulla Qodiriy Abdulhamid Cho'lpon Yunus Rajabiy G'afur G'ulom Oybek Tamara Khanum Hamid Olimjon Usmon Nosir Igor Savitsky Zulfiya Sharof Rashidov Erkin Vohidov Islam Karimov Abdulla Oripov Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi Shams al-Mulk Nasr Spitamenes

8 results

Early Islamic period712–1220

783–850

Muhammad al-Khwarizmi

Mathematician, astronomer, geographer

973–1048

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

Polymath: astronomer, mathematician, historian, geographer

1145–1221

Najm al-Din Kubra

Sufi master, founder of the Kubrawiya order

1199–1231

Jalal al-Din Mangburni

Last Khwarazmshah, military commander

The Mongol period1220–1370

1247–1326

Pahlavon Mahmud

Poet, wrestler, Sufi, patron saint of Khiva

The age of the khanates1500–1868

1603–1663

Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan

Khan of Khiva, historian

1809–1874

Muhammad Rizo Ogahiy

Poet, historian, translator

The Russian Empire period1868–1917

1845–1910

Muhammad Rahim Khan II (Feruz)

Khan of Khiva, poet, composer, patron of culture