Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Cyrus the Great the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty Pasargadae near the city of Shiraz, Iran Pasargadae Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Darius III emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran Naqsh-e Rustam Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran Persepolis Mausolus Persian satrap of Caria Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum"- the tomb is now destroyed Mausoleum of Maussollos Mithridatic dynasty rulers of the Kingdom of Pontus (and later briefly the Bosporan Kingdom) Amasya, Turkey Tombs of the kings of Pontus Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644) assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar Kashan, Iran Shrine of Abu Lu'lu'a Yaqub Leith Saffari (840-879) ruler of the Saffarid dynasty Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran none Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907) ruler of the Samanid dynasty Bukhara, Uzbekistan Samanid Mausoleum Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012) ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty Gonbad, Iran none Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092) vizier of Malekshah Isfahan, Iran none Shah Shoja' (d. 1384) ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez Shiraz, Iran none Gawhar Shad (d. 1457) wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gawhar Shad Mosque Herat, Afghanistan Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Nader Shah (1688–1747) Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty Mashhad, Iran none Karim Khan (1705–1779) the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty Shiraz, Iran Pars Museum of Shiraz Naser ed-Din Shah (1831–1896) and Sattar Khan (1868–1914) shah of Iran of the Qajar dynasty who was assassinated in the same shrine on May 1, 1896 and pivotal figure of the Constitutional Revolution, respectively Rey, Iran Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine Reza Shah (1878–1944) Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution Reza Shah's mausoleum Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) The second Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty Cairo, Egypt Al-Rifa'i Mosque Bayazid Bastami (804-874) Persian mystic Bastam, Iran none Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963-1033) Persian mystic Kharaqan near Bastam, Iran none Ali Hujwiri (990-1077) Persian mystic Lahore, Pakistan Data Durbar Complex Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088) Persian mystic Herat, Afghanistan Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141) Persian mystic Torbat-e Jam, Iran Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami mausoleum complex Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166) Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order Baghdad, Iraq none Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221) Persian mystic Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran none Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230) Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order Ajmer, India none Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th century) Persian mystic Natanz, Iran none Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303) Persian mystic near Isfahan, Iran Pir-i Bakran Amu Abdollah (d. 1316) Persian mystic near Isfahan, Iran Manar Jonban Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301) Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili Lahijan, Iran none Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334) Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty Ardabil, Iran - Ismail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there none Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370) Persian mystic Khuldabad, India none Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389) Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order Bukhara, Uzbekistan none Shah Nimatullah Wali (1330–1431) Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order Mahan, Iran, Iran Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine Sibaveih (760-797) Persian linguist Shiraz, Iran none Imam Bukhari (810-870) Persian Sunni scholar near Samarkand, Uzbekistan none Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941) Persian Shi'ite scholar Rey, Iran Ebn-e Babveih Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th century) Persian poet Balkh, Afghanistan none Ferdowsi (940-1020) Persian poet Tus, Iran Tomb of Ferdowsi Avicenna (980-1037) Persian philosopher and physician Hamedan, Iran Avicenna Mausoleum Baba Taher (11th century) Persian mystic and poet Hamedan, Iran none Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988) Persian poets Tabriz, Iran Maqbarat ol-Shoara Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic Tus, Iran none Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126) Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali Qazvin, Iran none Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet Nishapur, Iran none Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131) Persian poet Ghazni, Afghanistan none Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209) Persian mystic and poet Shiraz, Iran none Nezami (1141–1209) Persian poet Ganja, Azerbaijan Nezami Mausoleum Attar (1145–1221) Persian mystic and poet Nishapur, Iran none Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312) Persian mystics and poets Konya, Turkey Mevlana Museum Saadi (1184–1291) Persian poet Shiraz, Iran none Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349) Persian historian and geographer Qazvin, Iran none Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352) Persian mystic and poet Shiraz, Iran none Hafez (1315–1390) Persian poet Shiraz, Iran Tomb of Hafez Jami (1414–1492) Persian mystic and poet Herat, Afghanistan none Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677) Persian poet Isfahan, Iran none Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614) Persian calligrapher Isfahan, Iran none Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621) Persian architect and poet Mashhad, Iran none Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721) Persian mystic and poet Delhi, India none Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940) Iran painter Nishapur, Iran none Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Bahar (1884–1951), Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Rahi Moayyeri (1909–1968), Darvish Khan (1872–1926), Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906–1965), Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) and Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905–1959) Persian poets, musicians and singers Tehran, Iran Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985) Persian writers Paris, France Père Lachaise Cemetery Salman the Persian Persian companion of Muhammad Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq none
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