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Also Known As Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī • al-Rāzī
Born 1149 • Rayy • Iran
Died 1209 (aged 60) • near Herāt • Afghanistan
Notable Works “Mafāṭīḥ al-ghayb”
Subjects Of Study Islam • Qurʾān
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
al-Fārābī
Muslim philosopher
al-Kindī
Muslim philosopher
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
Hājjī Hādī Sabzevārī
Islamic philosopher
Dawānī
Persian philosopher
Mīr Dāmād
Islamic philosopher
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Ibn ʿAqīl
Muslim theologian
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Muslim theologian
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator

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