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Also Known As al-Ghazzālī • Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazālī
Born 1058 • Iran
Died December 18, 1111 (aged 53) • Iran
Notable Works “Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn” • “Maqāṣid al-falāsifah” • “The Deliverer from Error” • “The Inconsistency–or Incoherence–of the Philosophers” • “The Just Mean in Belief” • “The Niche for Lights” • “al-Mustasfā”
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
al-Fārābī
Muslim philosopher
ad-Damīrī
Muslim theologian
al-Kindī
Muslim philosopher
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
al-Suyūṭī
Egyptian author
Hājjī Hādī Sabzevārī
Islamic philosopher
Dawānī
Persian philosopher
Mīr Dāmād
Islamic philosopher
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
Sayyid Quṭb
Egyptian writer
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
British scholar
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian

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