# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-zayd-al-balkhi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:34:15.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-zayd-al-balkhi"
name: "Abu Zayd al-Balkhi"
slug: "abu-zayd-al-balkhi"
description: "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, Greater Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He also founded the \"Balkhī school\" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Al-Balkhi is believed to have been one of the earliest to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes and he was the first to typify four types of emotional disorders: fear and anxiety; anger and aggression; sadness and depression; and obsessions."
tagline: "Persian polymath"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "850"
deathDate: "934"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.911913979044592
  historical:           19.40544133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
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    title: "Абузайди Балхӣ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump