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Also Known As Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thānī
Born 1564? • India
Died 1624 • India
Subjects Of Study Islam • mysticism
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian theologian
Kabir
Indian mystic and poet
Shāh Walī Allāh
Indian Muslim theologian
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic