List of Famous people born in Balkh, Afghanistan

Rumi

Born on September 30, 1207
Died on December 17, 1273 (aged 66)
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.

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Zalmay Khalilzad

First Name Zalmay
Born on March 22, 1951 (age 73)
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is an Afghan-American diplomat, who has served as the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department since September 2018. Previously, he served as a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the president of Gryphon Partners and Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm, based in Washington, D.C.

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Abdul Ali Mazari

First Name Abdul
Last Name Mazari
Born on January 1, 1946
Died on March 13, 1995 (aged 49)
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Abdul Ali Mazari was a Shiite militia and political leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party during and following the Soviet–Afghan War. Mazari was an ethnic Hazara from Parwan province of Afghanistan who believed that the solution to the internal divisions in Afghanistan was in a federal system of governance, with each ethnic group having specific constitutional rights and able to govern their own land and people. He was allegedly tortured and murdered by the Taliban in 1995, and posthumously given the title ‘Martyr Of National Unity’ in 2016 by Ashraf Ghani government. He supported equal representation of all ethnic groups of Afghanistan, especially Hazaras, who are still being persecuted in Afghanistan.

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Baha ud-Din Walad

First Name Baha
Last Name Walad
Died on November 30, 1229
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh
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Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

First Name Abu
Last Name Al-Balkhi
Born on August 10, 0787
Died on March 9, 0886 (aged 98)
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar, was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

First Name Abu
Last Name Al-Balkhi
Born on January 1, 0850
Died on January 1, 0934 (aged 84)
Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He was also the founder the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad.

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