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Also Known As Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī
Born 1109 or 1110 • Guadix • Spain
Died 1185 or 1186 • Marrakech • Morocco
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Persian philosopher and scientist
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
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as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
al-Fārābī
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Hājjī Hādī Sabzevārī
Islamic philosopher
Dawānī
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Mīr Dāmād
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Mullā Ṣadrā
Iranian philosopher
Avempace
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Ibn Miskawayh
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al-Kindī
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Charles Bray
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
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