Balkhi
# Balkhi

Balkhi (Persian: بلخی, "from/ of Balkh," a city in modern-day Afghanistan) may refer to:

People:

* Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787-886), Afghan astrologer, astronomer and Islamic philosopher
* Abu-Shakur Balkhi (915-?), Persian poet
* Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850-934), Persian geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist
* Hiwi al-Balkhi, 9th century exegete and Biblical critic
* Ismael Balkhi (1918-1968), Afghan political activist and Hazara reformist leader
* Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (1207-1273), better known in the English-speaking world as Rumi, Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic
* Rabia Balkhi, 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, Afghan politician
* Sultan Balkhi, 14th-century Muslim preacher based in Bengal
